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Social Life & Customs

Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Learning about everyday life, religious practices, customs, and traditions will help you appreciate your ancestor and the time he or she lived in. This information is particularly helpful if you choose to write a history of your family. Research procedures and genealogical sources are different for each area and time period and are affected by the local customs and traditions.

Publications

Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Marriage and relationships		Mayer, Enrique, and Bolton, Ralph. Parentesco y matrimonio en los Andes ((Relationships and Marriage in the Andies). Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 1980.	Peru
Social life and customs	1710-1820	Descola, Jean; translated by Michael Heron. Daily life in colonial Peru, 1710-1820. New York, New York : Hyperion, 1968	Peru
Social life and customs, History, Religion, Women		Martín, Luis. Daughters of the conquistadores : Women of the Viceroyalty of Peru. Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press, 1983	Peru
Social life and customs, History, Gazetteers		Álisky, Marvin. Historical dictionary of Peru. Metuchen, New Jersey : Scarecrow Press, 1979	Peru
Social life and customs, Native races		Stein, William W. Hualcan : life in the highlands of Peru. Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, 1961	Peru
Social life and customs, History, Emigration		Kapsoli, Wilfredo. Primer seminario sobre poblaciones inmigrantes : actas - Lima, 9 y 10 de mayo de 1986. Lima, Peru : Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, 1987	Peru
Social life and customs, Native races		Arquinio, José. Sociedad, cultura y economía en 10 areas andino-peruanas : Asillo, Chumbao, Chuyas-Huaychao, Huata y Quito, Julcamarca, Layo, Pirapi, Soras, Taraco, Yancao. Lima, Peru : [s.n.], 1966	Peru
Social life and customs, Maps		Compañón, Martínez. Trujillo del Perú. [Madrid, Spain : Ediciones Cultura Hispánica del Centro Iberoaméricano de Cooperación, 1978	Peru, Trujillo
Social life and customs, History	1710-1820	Descola, Jean; traducción de Gabriela de Civiny. La vida cotidiana en el Perú en tiempos de los españoles, 1710-1820. Buenos Aires, Argentina : Librería Hachette, 1962	Peru, Trujillo
Social life and customs, History, Minorities, Jews		Siederer, León Trahtemberg. Vida judía en Lima y en las provincias del Perú : un recuento histórico documentado sobre la presencia judía en el territorio del Perú en el siglo XX. Lima, Peru : L. Trahtemberg S., 1989	Peru
Social life and customs, History	Pre-Combian times to today	Ferreira, César; Ferreira, César G.;Dargent-Chamot, Eduardo. Culture and Customs of Peru. Greenwood Press, 2003	Peru
Social life and customs, Class formation, Women		Gose, Peter. Deathly Waters And Hungry Mountains: Agrarian Ritual And Class Formation In An Andean Town. Semantic Scholar, 1994	Peru
Social life and customs, Governments, Trade		Carpenter, Frank George. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political. Western W. Wilson Publisher, 1900	South America
Social life and customs, History, Women	Inca and Colonial Peru	Silverblatt, Irene Marsha. Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton University Press, 1987	Peru
Social life and customs, History, Women	1919-1991	de la Cadena, Marisol. Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991. Duke University Press, 2003	Cuzco, Peru
Social life and customs, Fiestas, Sports, Folklore	Modern	Paerregaard, Karsten. Linking Separate Worlds: Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru. Routledge, 2020	Peru
Social life and customs, History	16th Century	Lockhart, James. The Men of Cajamarca: A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru. University of Texas, 1972	Peru
Social life and customs, History	1532–1560	Lockhart, James. Spanish Peru, 1532–1560: A Social History. University of Wisconsin Press, 1994	Peru
Social life and customs, Family Change		Cuesta, Laura; Ríos-Salas, Vanessa; Meyer, Daniel R. The Impact of Family Change on Income Poverty in Colombia and Peru. University of Toronto Press, 2017	Peru
Social life and customs, History		Ferreira, César; Dargent-Chamot, Eduardo. Culture and customs of Peru. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003	Peru
Social life and customs, Funeral Customs and rites		Quilter, Jeffrey. Life and death at Paloma : society and mortuary practices in a preceramic Peruvian village. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989	Peru
Social life and customs, Travel, Women	Modern	World Trade Press. Peru. Petaluma, Calif. : World Trade Press, 2010	Peru
Social life and customs, Travel, Etiquette	Modern	Forrest, John; Porturas, Julia. Peru. London : Kuperard, 2012	Peru
Social life and customs, Religion	Modern	Cobo, Bernabé; Hamilton, Roland. Inca religion and customs. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1990	Peru
Social life and customs, History, Manners	1710-1820	Descola, Jean. Daily life in colonial Peru 1710-1820. London, Allen & Unwin, 1968	Peru
Social life and customs, History		Bradley, Peter T.; Cahill, David Patrick. Habsburg Peru : images, imagination and memory. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000	Peru
Social life and customs, Women, Clothing		Femenias, Blenda. Gender and the boundaries of dress in contemporary Peru. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005	Peru
Social life and customs, History, Manners	Modern	World Trade Press. Peru : society & culture. Petaluma, Calif. : World Trade Press, 2011	Peru
Social life and customs, History, Marriage	18th Century	Robins, Nicholas A. Of love and loathing : marital life, strife, and intimacy in the Colonial Andes, 1750-1825. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015	Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina
Social life and customs, History		Malpass, Michael A. Daily life in the Inca empire. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009	Inca empire
Social life and customs, History, Politics		de Díaz-Límaco, Jane Holligan. Peru : a guide to the people, politics and culture. London : Latin America Bureau, 1998	Peru

See also Peru Minorities and Peru Native Races.