Brutality and benevolence
Subtitle: human ethology, culture, and the birth of Mexico
By: Abel A. Alves.
Series: Contributions in Latin American studies,; no. 8
Publisher: Greenwood Press; Praeger
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- First contact with Europeans.; Indians, Treatment of -- Mexico.; Sociobiology.; Human behavior.; History -- Methodology.; Mexico -- History -- Conquest, 1519-1540.; Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Description: "Cultural anthropology of the conquest and the establishment of the colonial system in the 16th century. Explores basic human sentiments - wonderment, hatred, brutality, compassion - using both the Aztec and the Spanish prisms. Food, justice, benevolence, and gender are the venues used to examine the behavior of indigenous and Spanish peoples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242) and index.