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With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700

With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru, 1550-1700

Graubart, Karen B.

Hardcover

South American History

ISBN10: 0804753555
ISBN13: 9780804753555
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Mar 22 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Based upon substantial new research, this book investigates the heterogeneity of experiences of rural and urban indigenous women in Peru during the first two centuries of Spanish colonization. Using wills, as well as other notarial and legal documents, it discusses changes in their working lives and how their identity as Indians as well as women was shaped in a multicultural society. From their utilization of colonial law to seek redress, to their creation of urban dress styles that reflected their new positions as consumers and as producers under Spanish rule, the early colonial period witnessed a dramatic upheaval in indigenous women's lives. By analyzing the migration from rural to urban areas, interaction with Spanish as well as African society, and the lives of both plebeians and elites, the author provides a thorough picture of this transformational period.

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