Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Women?
- 1 Iberian Women in the Old World and the New
- 2 Before Columbus: Women in Indigenous America and Africa
- 3 Conquest and Colonization
- 4 The Arrival of Iberian Women
- 5 Women, Marriage, and Family
- 6 Elite Women
- 7 The Brides of Christ and Other Religious Women
- 8 Women and Work
- 9 Women and Slavery
- 10 Women and Social Deviance: Crime, Witchcraft, and Rebellion
- 11 Women and Enlightenment Reform
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
- Plate section
3 - Conquest and Colonization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Women?
- 1 Iberian Women in the Old World and the New
- 2 Before Columbus: Women in Indigenous America and Africa
- 3 Conquest and Colonization
- 4 The Arrival of Iberian Women
- 5 Women, Marriage, and Family
- 6 Elite Women
- 7 The Brides of Christ and Other Religious Women
- 8 Women and Work
- 9 Women and Slavery
- 10 Women and Social Deviance: Crime, Witchcraft, and Rebellion
- 11 Women and Enlightenment Reform
- Conclusion
- Documents
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
a Chinese wide shawl
another wide shawl, from the Quixos region, embroidered
a woolen wrap-around skirt and a woolen wide shawl
a large Chinese porcelain
two large stickpins with their bells
one small chain with two other stickpins of marked silver
one women belt or girdle of purple silk, in the Roman style, with an ornamental border
a scarlet satin wide shawl with its silver brooch [?]
a new wide shawl of light silk or linen, with Castilian needlework
a wide shawl of green Castilian damask with golden edging
a choker of pearls and purple beads
some filigreed earrings with small pearl pendants
some earrings with three pendants edged with pearls
a choker of pearls and blue and red beads
more chokers of baroque pearls, silver, and bells
another choker of pearls and little golden bells and coral …
two bracelets of coral and pearls.
The early years of European discovery and conquest of America was a period of violence, dramatic social change, and profound transformation in the lives of indigenous peoples. The Indian world was conquered, dismantled, and restructured according to the conqueror's vision. The conquest probably had a more varied effect on Indian women than any other single group. But not all Indian women were equally affected by the conquest. The aftermath of conquest severed the lives of some women and reduced others to slavery; still others managed to integrate themselves into European society, in many cases more successfully than the Indian men.
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