Brutality and benevolence

By Abel A. Alves

Subjects: Human behavior, First contact with Europeans, History, methodology, Mexico, history, spanish colony, 1540-1810, Indians, treatment of, Indians, Treatment of, Indians of Mexico, Treatment of Indians, Methodology, History, Sociobiology, Mexico, history, conquest, 1519-1540

Description: "Cultural anthropology of the conquest and the establishment of the colonial system in the 16th century. Explores basic human sentiments - wonderment, hatred, brutality, compassion - using both the Aztec and the Spanish prisms. Food, justice, benevolence, and gender are the venues used to examine the behavior of indigenous and Spanish peoples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.