Preindustrial urban nuptiality and the limits of crossbreeding: Characteristics and evolution of nuptiality patterns in Mexico City, 1700-1850
The marriage market of Mexico City in the eighteenth century evidenced unique characteristics: a marked disproportion between the male and female populations of marriageable age, strong socioethnic restrictions and considerable tendencies toward racial endogamy. These factors as a whole generated a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1992 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx:article/839 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/839 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | nupcialidad mestizaje Ciudad de México demografía histórica |
| Sumario: | The marriage market of Mexico City in the eighteenth century evidenced unique characteristics: a marked disproportion between the male and female populations of marriageable age, strong socioethnic restrictions and considerable tendencies toward racial endogamy. These factors as a whole generated a nuptiality pattern characterized by older males and relatively young females at marriage; at the same time, they favored the rise of a considerable "black" marriage market, as reflected in the high rates of illegitimacy.During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in the evolution of these patterns on can observe a gradual hardening of the system and very few possibilities for the creation of a free marriage market for all inhabitants. |
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