In this book, Susan Kellogg explains how Spanish law served as
an instrument of cultural transformation and adaptation in the
lives of Nahuatl-speaking peoples during the years 1500-1700--the
first two centuries of colonial rule. She shows that law had an
impact on numerous aspects of daily life, especially gender
relations, patterns of property ownership and transmission, and
family and kinship organization.
Based on a wide array of local-level Spanish and Nahuatl
documentation and an intensive analysis of seventy-three lawsuits
over property involving Indians residing in colonial Mexico City
(Tenochtitlan), this work reveals how legal documentation offers
important clues to attitudes and perceptions.
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