The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America by Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Lyman L. Johnson

The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America

Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Lyman L. Johnson

250 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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A contemporary of Columbus noted "those crazy Spaniards have more regard for a bit of honor than for a thousand lives." This obsession flourished in the New World, where status, privilege, and rank became cornerstones of the colonial social order....

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