Title: Brutality and benevolence
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: First contact with Europeans, History, Human behavior, Indians of Mexico, Indians, Treatment of, Methodology, Sociobiology, Treatment of Indians, Mexico, history, conquest, 1519-1540, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, History, methodology, First contact with other peoples
Places: Mexico
Time periods: Conquest, 1519-1540, Spanish colony, 1540-1810
LC classification: F1230 .A49 1996