Two studies explored how domestic violence may be implicitly or explicitly sanctioned and
reinforced in cultures where honor is a salient organizing theme. Three general predictions …

Offering a corrective to previous views of Spanish-American independence, this book shows
how political culture in Peru was dramatically transformed in this period of transition and …

The conquest of the New World would hardly have been possible if the invading Spaniards
had not allied themselves with the indigenous population. This book takes into account the …

Conflict is ubiquitous and inevitable, but people generally dislike it and try to prevent or
avoid it as much as possible. So why do clashes of right and wrong occur? And why are …

This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations
among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of …

In this history of childbirth and contraception in Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary chronicles colonial
and nineteenth-century beliefs and practices surrounding conception, pregnancy and its …

São Paulo, Brazil, holds the largest number of Japanese descendants outside Japan, and
they have been there for six generations. Japanese immigration to Brazil started in 1908 to …

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del derecho Saltar al contenido ALICIA Concytec menú Inicio Acerca de ¿Qué es Alicia …

Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references
to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and Passion, Nicole von Germeten offers …

" Edward Osowski focuses on a regional set of Nahua Constantines, who, with their
conversionary moments generations behind them, sought to lead by example---through …