Growing between good and proper: The child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in Central México

Currently, children studies have become a trending topic in the social sciences around the globe. It is essential to bring this perspective to the Mesoamerican Ethnohistory to understand the colonial realities of the indigenous groups in the past. For this aim, discourses related to childrearing pro...

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Main Author: Nadia Marín-Guadarrama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma Indígena de México 2012-09-01
Series:Ra Ximhai
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Online Access:http://www.uaim.edu.mx/webraximhai/Ej-25articulosPDF/Art04.pdf
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description Currently, children studies have become a trending topic in the social sciences around the globe. It is essential to bring this perspective to the Mesoamerican Ethnohistory to understand the colonial realities of the indigenous groups in the past. For this aim, discourses related to childrearing produced during the early colonial times by friars and Nahua scholars were studied based on theories developed by the history and anthropology of childhoods, and through the use of textual and philological analysis. The main conclusion is that childrearing was not a mundane topic for Friars and Nahua scholars, but a relevant one where the roles of a mother, a father, and a child inside the household were discussed in their desire for shaping the colonial indigenous society.
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Growing between good and proper: The child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in Central México
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Nahuas
Colony
title Growing between good and proper: The child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in Central México
title_full Growing between good and proper: The child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in Central México
title_fullStr Growing between good and proper: The child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in Central México
title_full_unstemmed Growing between good and proper: The child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in Central México
title_short Growing between good and proper: The child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in Central México
title_sort growing between good and proper the child rearing at the indigenous colonial discourses in central mexico
topic Children studies
Gender
Nahuas
Colony
url http://www.uaim.edu.mx/webraximhai/Ej-25articulosPDF/Art04.pdf
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