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Brutality and Benevolence - Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico (Hardcover, New)
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Brutality and Benevolence - Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico (Hardcover, New)
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The 16th-century conquest of Mexico and its effects are best
understood as cultural manifestations of animal behavior patterns
which humans share with other primates. While Nahuas and Spaniards
can be distinguished on the basis of learned cultural differences,
such differences only exaggerated particular expressions of the
universal behavioral patterns they shared. Brutality and
benevolence were used in the same way by both to establish
hierarchy and cultural bonding. After the conquest, a new Mexican
synthesis could be constructed because of these commonalities.
Alves explores the formation of that synthesis by examining such
aspects of material culture as food, clothing, and
shelter-especially as they manifest such universal primate
tendencies as hierarchy, reciprocity, benevolence, brutality,
xenophobia, curiosity, and territoriality. Alves proposes that
humans are historically best understood by using current advances
in the fields of primatology and ethology. This groundbreaking book
will be of great interest to Latin Americanists, historians, and
anthropologists.
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