Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico

by Abel A. Alves

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The 16th-century conquest of Mexico and its effects are best understood as cultural manifestations of animal behavior patterns which humans share with other primates. While Nahuas and Spaniards can be distinguished on the basis of learned cultural differences, such differences only exaggerated particular expressions of the universal behavioral patterns they shared. Brutality and benevolence were used in the same way by both to establish hierarchy...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:031329982X

ISBN13:9780313299827

Release Date:October 1996

Publisher:Praeger

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.22 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

16th Century 17th Century Americas Anthropology Central America Cultural Ethnic Studies History Latin America Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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