HIST 285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Infant Mortality, Hacienda
25 Oct 2016
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Week 7 (part i): women, gender relations, and family. Members of the nobility: concerned with geneology (applicable to both the spanish and the incas) Households where there was the spanish male with a family with an indigenous woman, but as laws changed they needed to marry spanish women in order to gain their inheritances (while still living with indigenous partners). Elite men are away from the household, travelling between mexican and peruvian viceroys or to. Women are the de-facto powers of these households. Males had legal rights over women if they were married to them or parented women until they were the age of 25. Some women would not marry to make legal decisions for themselves. This impacted all women of inca and spanish culture regardless of their social standing: childhood. Wouldn"t baptize or name children until they were 2 or 3 because of infant mortality rate that impacted all social classes.
