Mulheres indígenas: violência e condições femininas em Tlaxcala, Nueva España, século XVIII

Abstract

The present paperwork has as an objective to understand the surroundings of the violence practiced against the indigenous women from the province of Tlaxcala, Nueva España along of the XVIII century. This way, we also pretend to analyze the social, economic, political and cultural conditions of this local people. Furthermore, we will envisage the feminine roles that existed on that period and that projected themselves for this women while individuals. The space chosen for the study was a territory with the presence of accentuated indigenous tribe, having a strong traditional culture and a huge control from many types of autorities. This was manifested in many ways for the tlaxcala natives and on their life being. Because of it, the present work commit itself to offer perspective about violent practices that perpetuate and engage on comprehending the social tlaxcala compounds of the century said above, yet focusing in one specific group. To carry out this work, we used crimes proceedings as a historical source. Those can be found for consult at: Archivo Historico del Estado de Tlaxcala, México.