Lives of the Bigamists Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico

Name: Lives of the Bigamists Marriage, Family, and Community in Colonial Mexico
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ISBN: 9780826323842

ISBN-10: 0826323847

ISBN-13: 9780826323842

Edition: 2001 (Abridged)

Authors: Richard Boyer

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This fascinating examination of bigamy in colonial Mexico reveals for the first time the lives, routines, and networks of ordinary people. The author, drawing from his close reading of Inquisition files, situates these people in the web of daily life: in families as they grow up and in communities as they learn the ways of society. With vivid glimpses of courtship, loss of virginity, marriage, adultery, abusive treatment, and failed marriage, he also follows them in their private lives. In the campaign to root out bigamy, the Inquisition relied on people to denounce one another. How they went about this reveals that gossip and curiosity sustained a surer and swifter system of communications…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 215
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.638

Richard Boyer is professor of history at Simon Fraser University and the author of a book on seventeenth-century Mexico City as well as of a number of articles on colonial Mexico.

Preface to the Dialogos Edition
Acknowledgments to the 1995 Edition
Introduction	p. 1
Bigamy and the Inquisition	p. 13
Family and Upbringing	p. 31
Marriage	p. 61
Married Life	p. 101
Postscript: Social Control, Religion, and Individual Agency	p. 145
Sample of 216 Bigamy Files	p. 163
Glossary	p. 171
Notes	p. 173
Index	p. 195
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