October 29 - Life and Love

Readings:

  • Otte, Enrique. Cartas privadas de emigrantes a Indias: 1540-1616. Mexico: FCE, 1993

Documents:

Doc. 183 AHC -Dowry letter.
Doc. 218 AHC - Marriage contract
Doc 29 ANB - To lead a married life.
Doc. 304 AHP - Promess not to gamble
Doc. 80 AHC - Testament of Maria Chirinos - 1655
Doc 235 ALP - Donation to three Indian children 1605

Supplementary Reading:

  • Presta, Ana Maria. "Las Donas Morenas: Historias de lasprimeras mestizas de la Conquista"

  • Stern, Steve J. The Secret History of Gender: Women, men and power in Late Colonial Mexico.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1995.

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