Calidad and clase in Spanish America, 17-18th centuries
Last class: Rural economy: patterns of production from consumption (see Bauer, Schwartz and Hoberman)
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Verbal insults in hierarchical, multi-racial New Spain (18th c.)
Testimonies, 18th c. Chihuahua
Multi-racial, hierarchical colonial society based on rank
Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa, A Voyage to South America (1748) on Lima
Calidad in Cochabamba district, categories were manipulated: passing and drift; identity and community
Calidad in Antequera, a city in Southern New Spain, 1777
Parral mining district (Chihuahua): Calidad and Clase, 1788
Parral mining district (Chihuahua): Calidad and Clase, 1788 (1,066 males)
Elite’s view (graph rotated 180?)
Calidad in the household Indians were twice as likely to live as dependents
Calidad and gender over the life course compare Indias with españolas
Males over the life course compare indios with españoles
Marriageways: Spain vs. Spanish America
Nuptial fair: calidad and gender Anterquera, 1693-99
Picture the nuptial fair, Antequera 1693-9:
Antequera 1793-7: softening at the center; extremes continue strong
Mexico City, 1727: Calidad strongly determined pairings
Nuptial fairs in the countryside differ from the cities
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