The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial period in Latin America. These mini-biographies vividly show the tensions that emerged when the political, social, religious, and economic ideals of the Spanish and Portuguese colonial regimes and the Roman Catholic Church conflicted with the realities of daily living in the Americas.

Now fully updated with new and revised essays, the book is carefully balanced among countries and ethnicities. Within an overall theme of social order and disorder in a colonial setting, the stories bring to life issues of gender; race and ethnicity; conflicts over religious orthodoxy; and crime, violence, and rebellion. Written by leading scholars, the essays are specifically designed to be readable and interesting. Ideal for the Latin American history survey and for courses on colonial Latin American history, this fresh and human text will engage as well as inform students.

Contributions by: Rolena Adorno, Kenneth J. Andrien, Christiana Borchart de Moreno, Joan Bristol, Noble David Cook, Marcela Echeverri, Lyman L. Johnson, Mary Karasch, Alida C. Metcalf, Kenneth Mills, Muriel S. Nazzari, Ana Marí a Presta, Susan E. Ramí rez, Matthew Restall, Zeb Tortorici, Camilla Townsend, Ann Twinam, and Nancy E. van Deusen.

Introduction
Kenneth J. Andrien
Part I: New World Beginnings and Efforts to Create a Colonial Social Order, 1492-1610
Chapter 1: Gaspar Antonio Chi: Bridging the Conquest of Yucatá n
Matthew Restall
Chapter 2: Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru
Susan E. Ramí rez
Chapter 3: Doñ a Isabel Sisa: A Sixteenth-Century Indian Woman Resisting Gender Inequalities
Ana Marí a Presta
Chapter 4: Domingos Fernandes Nobre: "Tomacauna," a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
Alida C. Metcalf
Chapter 5: The Mysterious Catalina: Indian or Spaniard?
Noble David Cook
Part II: The Mature Colonial Order, 1610-1740
Chapter 6: Ursula de Jesú s: A Seventeenth-Century Afro-Peruvian Mystic
Nancy E. van Deusen
Chapter 7: Agustina Ruiz: Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico
Zeb Tortorici
Chapter 8: Zumbi of Palmares: Challenging the Portuguese Colonial Order
Mary Karasch
Chapter 9: Diego de Ocañ a: Holy Wanderer
Kenneth Mills
Chapter 10: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Native Writer and Litigant in Early Colonial Peru
Rolena Adorno
Chapter 11: Ana de Vega: Seventeenth-Century Afro-Mexican Healer
Joan Bristol
Part III: Reform, Resistance, and Rebellion, 1740-1825
Chapter 12: Pedro de Ayarza: The Purchase of Whiteness
Ann Twinam
Chapter 13: Victorina Loza: Quiteñ a Merchant in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
Christiana Borchart de Moreno
Chapter 14: José Antonio da Silva: Marriage and Concubinage in Colonial Brazil
Muriel S. Nazzari
Chapter 15: Juan Barbarí n: The 1795 French Conspiracy in Buenos Aires
Lyman L. Johnson
Chapter 16: Agustí n Agualongo and the Royalist Cause in the Wars of Independence
Marcela Echeverri
Chapter 17: Angela Batallas: A Fight for Freedom in Guayaquil
Camilla Townsend