Calidad and clase in Spanish America, 17-18th centuries
Verbal insults in a multi-racial, colonial society
- types: animal, racial, sexual
- responses: fights, complaints, and murder
Social hierarchy based in : calidad (race), class, wealth, occupation, honor, reputation, condition
Marriageways: Spain vs. Spanish America
- unions blessed by church and state vs. informal ones
- “natural” children: race and patrimonialism
- the nuptial fair--gender and calidad
Accommodation, resistance and reform