Affection and Interests in Mexico City. Marriages towards the End of the Colonial Period
Marriage and household customs of the past interest us today because they help us understand social relations at every level and dispel the prejudices and common places inspired by the proudly optimistic world we live in.We know quite a lot about the strategies of noble families to maintain or in...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2007 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Historia Mexicana |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.historiamexicana.colmex.mx:article/1635 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://historiamexicana.colmex.mx/index.php/RHM/article/view/1635 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Mexico city marrige daily life 18th Century ciudad de México matrimonio vida cotidiana siglo XVIII |
| Sumario: | Marriage and household customs of the past interest us today because they help us understand social relations at every level and dispel the prejudices and common places inspired by the proudly optimistic world we live in.We know quite a lot about the strategies of noble families to maintain or increase their privileges, but much less about common people, whom we assume did not have the same interests, having nothing to preserve. The statistical analysis of marriages announced during the last decades of the eighteenth century shows the tendency to establish family bonds according to professional affinity, geographical proximity, or socioeconomic level. Quality seems to have been a secondary issue, included among other social considerations.Observed trends reveal the flexibility of an open society in which the aristocratic minority defended norms of distinction and segregation that affected only them. |
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