This study analyzes the impact of Spanish rule on Indian peasant
identity in the late colonial period by investigating three areas
of social behavior. Based on the criminal trial records and related
documents from the regions of central Mexico and Oaxaca, it
attempts to discover how peasants conceived of their role under
Spanish rule, how they behaved under various kinds of street, and
how they felt about their Spanish overlords.
In examining the character of village uprisings, typical
relationships between killers and the people they killed, and the
drinking patterns of the late colonial period, the author finds no
warrant for the familiar picture of sullen depredation and despair.
Landed peasants of colonial Mexico drank moderately on the whole,
and mostly on ritual occasions; they killed for personal and not
political reasons. Only when new Spanish encroachments threatened
their lands and livelihoods did their grievances flare up in
rebellion, and these occasions were numerous but brief. The author
bolsters his conclusions with illuminating comparisons with other
peasant societies.
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