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Mestizaje in Ibero-America
Claudio Esteva Fabregat
出版
University of Arizona Press
, 1995
主題
History / Latin America / Central America
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
Social Science / Demography
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Social Science / Discrimination
Social Science / Biracial & Multiracial Studies
ISBN
0816512191
9780816512195
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qZoNAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
One of the most remarkable results of the arrival of Europeans in the New World may often be taken for granted: the emergence of the mestizo component in Latin American societies. The racial mixing that occurred in the Hispanic New World is the subject of this important study, which draws on a wide variety of historical, ethnographic, demographic, and biological sources to analyze processes of intermarriage, assimilation, and acculturation that continue in Latin America to the present day. Mestizaje in Ibero-America sheds new light on miscegenation and acculturation: their different levels and proportions in particular periods and in rural and urban areas, and the role of Spanish, Indian, and African women in the historical process of biological fusion. Although racial and cultural mixing usually coincided, Esteva observes that mestizos were often assimilated into Indian or Spanish society during the early colonial period and that acculturation without miscegenation sometimes occurred. He also shows that, contrary to the belief that "pure" Spanish blood was diluted in the New World, racial mixing and acculturation already existed in Iberia, facilitating its occurrence in America.