Transatlantic obligations creating the bonds of family in conquest-era Peru and Spain
Transatlantic obligations: creating the bonds of family in conquest-era Peru and Spain

"The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of the Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to a changing world. F...

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1. Verfasser: Mangan, Jane E. 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press [2016]
Schlagworte:
Geschichte 1500-1600
Alltag, Brauchtum
Geschichte
Gesellschaft
Families > Peru > History > 16th century
Mestizaje > Peru > History > 16th century
Spaniards > Peru > History > 16th century
Transnationalism > Social aspects > Peru > History > 16th century
City and town life > Peru > History > 16th century
Imperialism > Social aspects > Peru > History > 16th century
Familie
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Spanien
Peru > Social life and customs > 16th century
Peru > Ethnic relations > History > 16th century
Peru > Relations > Spain
Spain > Relations > Peru
Peru
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Zusammenfassung:"The sixteenth-century changes wrought by expansion of the Spanish empire into Peru shaped the ways of being a family in colonial Peru. Even as migration, race mixture, and transculturation took place, family members fulfilled obligations to one another by adapting custom to a changing world. Family began to shift when, from the moment of their arrival in 1532, Spaniards were joined with elite indigenous women in political marriage-like alliances. Almost immediately, a generation of mestizos was born that challenged the hierarchies of colonial society. In response, the Spanish Crown began to promote the marriage of these men and the travel of Spanish women to Peru to promote good customs and even serve as surrogate parents. Other reactions came from wives in Spain who, abandoned by husbands, sought assistance to fulfill family duties. For indigenous families, the pressures of colonialism prompted migration to cities. By mid-century, the increase of Spanish migration to Peru changed the social landscape, but did not halt mixed-race marriages. The book posits that late sixteenth-century cities, specifically Lima and Arequipa, were host to indigenous and Spanish families but also to numerous 'blended' families borne of a process of mestizaje. In its final chapter, the legacies for the next generation reveal how Spanish fathers sometimes challenged law with custom and sentiment to establish inheritance plans for their children. By tracing family obligations connecting Peru and Spain through dowries, bequests, legal powers, and letters, Transatlantic Obligations presents a powerful call to rethink sixteenth-century definitions of family"...Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 247 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780199768578
9780199768585

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