Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial LimaUniv of North Carolina Press, 18/05/2006 - 368 páginas In a pioneering study of childhood in colonial Spanish America, Bianca Premo examines the lives of youths in the homes, schools, and institutions of the capital city of Lima, Peru. Situating these young lives within the framework of law and intellectual history from 1650 to 1820, Premo brings to light the colonial politics of childhood and challenges readers to view patriarchy as a system of power based on age, caste, and social class as much as gender. Although Spanish laws endowed elite men with an authority over children that mirrored and reinforced the monarch's legitimacy as a colonial "Father King," Premo finds that, in practice, Lima's young often grew up in the care of adults--such as women and slaves--who were subject to the patriarchal authority of others. During the Bourbon Reforms, city inhabitants of all castes and classes began to practice a "new politics of the child," challenging men and masters by employing Enlightenment principles of childhood. Thus the social transformations and political dislocations of the late eighteenth century occurred not only in elite circles and royal palaces, Premo concludes, but also in the humble households of a colonial city. |
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... young Simona Laredo, Agustín de Castro, and the illegitimate Melgarejo siblings have become even more familiar to my husband and intellectual hero, Barry Levitt. No matter how tired from conducting interviews with real, live people, no ...
... young Simona Laredo, Agustín de Castro, and the illegitimate Melgarejo siblings have become even more familiar to my husband and intellectual hero, Barry Levitt. No matter how tired from conducting interviews with real, live people, no ...
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... young. In conventional feminist definitions, social reproduction primarily refers to a modern, industrial system in which women's labor and role in sexual reproduction were unremunerated and politically devalued by relegation to the ...
... young. In conventional feminist definitions, social reproduction primarily refers to a modern, industrial system in which women's labor and role in sexual reproduction were unremunerated and politically devalued by relegation to the ...
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... young and old—were naturally subordinate to an authority figure, usually a male, who held superiority based on the hierarchical model of the Western family.∞∫ Historians of Latin America often parse the concept of patriarchy in order ...
... young and old—were naturally subordinate to an authority figure, usually a male, who held superiority based on the hierarchical model of the Western family.∞∫ Historians of Latin America often parse the concept of patriarchy in order ...
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... Young Agustín, the español youth on the brink of adulthood whose story began this chapter, believed that he could gain more advantages—perhaps socially as opposed to strictly legally—by being considered a man rather than a child. He ...
... Young Agustín, the español youth on the brink of adulthood whose story began this chapter, believed that he could gain more advantages—perhaps socially as opposed to strictly legally—by being considered a man rather than a child. He ...
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... young subordinates of all castes and classes. Still, there was no guarantee that the Defensor de Menores would recommend judgments that were in the best interests of minors of age, that court-appointed attorneys would vigorously defend ...
... young subordinates of all castes and classes. Still, there was no guarantee that the Defensor de Menores would recommend judgments that were in the best interests of minors of age, that court-appointed attorneys would vigorously defend ...
Índice
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Institutions for Child Rearing | 79 |
Youth and Crime in the Eighteenth Century | 109 |
Reform and Enlightenment in the Late Colonial Period | 137 |
6 The New Politics of the Child in the Late Colonial Courts | 179 |
7 The New Politics of the Slave Child in the Late Colonial Courts | 211 |
Strange Ties and Interior Fears | 243 |
Sample of the Numeración of 1700 | 257 |
Sample of Notary Contracts | 259 |
Notes | 263 |
Bibliography | 315 |
Index | 341 |
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Página xiii - Tom's most well, now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watchguard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'da knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn'ta tackled it and ain't agoing to no more.
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Página 294 - Cédula por la qual Su Magestad funda un Colegio de Nobles Americanos en la Ciudad de Granada.
Página 79 - Little specific information is available on the people or the economic life of these regions during the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century.
Página 168 - The indifference of the males toward the other sex to which Nature has entrusted the place of reproduction suggests an organic imperfection, a sort of infancy of the people of America similar to that of the individuals of our continent who have not reached the age of puberty.