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Social Life and 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 in which he or she lived. 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.

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• Mexican Culture - TOTA, gives general information about Mexican Culture

Topic	Time frame	Resource	Location
History, commerce	1300s to 1500s	Del Castillo, Bernal Diaz. The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, John Ingram Lockhart, trans. J. Hatchard and Son, 1844.	Mexico City
Urban life	1890s to 1910s	Godoy, Mercedes. When I Was a Girl in Mexico. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1919.	Mexico City
Dress, fashions	19th century	Spence, Lewis. Mexico of the Mexicans. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917.	Mexico
History		Linda Manzanilla y Leonardo López Luján, coordinadores. Atlas histórico de Mesoamérica. Mexico City, Mexico: Eds. Larousse, 1993	Central America, Mexico
Politics		John Kenneth Turner. Barbarous Mexico. Chicago, Illinois: C. H. Kerr & company, 1911	Mexico
Religion		Wold, Lillian Ramos Navarro Casamiento y velacion = Marriage and blessing: two distinct ceremonies. Journal (HOGAR de Dallas) - v. 5], 2002	Mexico
Social life and customs		Oscar Lewis The children of Sánchez: autobiography of a Mexican family. Salt Lake City, Utah: Digitized by FamilySearch International, 2014	Mexico
Women		Josephina Muriel. Cultura femenina novohispana. Mexico : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2000	Mexico
History, Politics		Alan Riding. Distant neighbors : a portrait of the Mexicans. New York, New York: Knopf, 1985	Mexico
Social Politics, Travel		Ryan, John Morris. Area handbook for Mexico. Washington, D.C.: Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1970	Mexico
Church History		Jasper T. Moses. Today in the land of tomorrow : a study in the development of Mexico. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Christian Women's Board of Missions, 1907	Mexico
History, Women	1750-1846	Amy M. Porter; foreword by Nancy E. Baker. Their lives, their wills: women in the borderlands, 1750-1846. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press, 2015	Mexico
Travel	1824, 1825, 1826	Penny, Edward B. A sketch of the customs and society of Mexico: in a series of familiar letters and a journal of travels in the interior, during the years 1824, 1825, 1826. London, England: Longman & Co, 1828	Mexico
Social life and customs		Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru. Educación, familia y vida cotidiana en México virreinal. Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de México Centro de Estudios Históricos, 2013	Mexico
Land		translated by Alvin Eustis ; edited, with a foreword by Lesley Byrd Simpson. Land and society in colonial Mexico : the great hacienda. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1966	Mexico
Migration		Greenow, Linda L. Marriage migration and regional interaction in late colonial Nueva Galicia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Association of American Geographers, 1979	Mexico
Population, History		Robert Denhardt. Mexican demography. Pacific Historical Review, 1939	Mexico
Social life and customs, Population, History	1820-1980	Larissa Adler de Lomnitz and Marisol Pérez-Lizaur; translated by Cinna Lomnitz. A Mexican elite family, 1820-1980 : kinships, class, and culture. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987	Mexico
Social life and customs		William Weber Johnson and the Editors of Life. Mexico. New York, New York: Time, 1961	Mexico
Social life and customs		Antone Kimball Romney and Romaine Romney. The Mixtecans of Juxtlahuaca, México. New York, New York: John Wiley, 1966	Oaxaca, Mexico
Statistics	1822	Ortiz de Ayala, Simón Tadeo, Garcia Diáz, Tarsicio. Resumen de la estadística del Imperio Mexicano, 1822 : Estudio preliminar, revisión de texto, notas y anexos de Tarsicio Garcia Diáz. Mexico: Biblioteca Nacional, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, 1968	Mexico
Social life and customs		Pilar Gonzalbo Aizpuru. Familia y Orden Colonial. Mexico City, Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico, 2005	Mexico
French Customs	18th Century	Juan Pedro Viqueira Albán. Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico. SR Books, 2004	Mexico
History, Religion		Peter Standish, Steven M. Bell. Culture and Customs of Mexico. Greenwood Press, 2004	Mexico
Women	Preconquest Colonial Mexico	edited by Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, Robert Stephen Haskett Indian Women of Early Mexico. University of Oklahoma Press, 1997	Mexico
Manners	Modern	Guy Mavor. Mexico - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture. Kuperard, 2008	Mexico
Art	Colonial	lona Katzew. Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-century Mexico. Yale University Press, 2004	Mexico
Social life and customs		Myron Echenberg. Culture and Higher Learning in Humboldt’s Mexico (pp. 84-98) From: Humboldt's Mexico: In the Footsteps of the Illustrious German Scientific Traveller. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017	Mexico
Sports	20th Century	JOSÉ M. ALAMILLO. DEPORTES, AMERICANIZATION, AND MEXICAN SPORTING CULTURE (pp. 14-39) From: Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora. Rutgers University Press, 2020	Mexico
Sports	20th Century	Russell Maddicks. Mexico. London: Kuperard, 2017	Mexico
Travel, Manners	Modern	Frank G Carpenter, Mexico. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1928	Mexico
Dance, Festivals	Modern	Barbara Mauldin. Masks of Mexico: tigers, devils, and the dance of life. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1999	Mexico
Social life and customs	17th, 18th, 19th Century	Javier Villa-Flores; Sonya Lipsett-Rivera. Emotions and daily life in colonial Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014	Mexico
Manners, Children		Anne Merriman Peck. Young Mexico. New York, R.M. McBride, 1941	Mexico
Indians of Mexico and Central America, Antiquities		Charles Phillips; David M Jones. The Aztec & Maya world : everyday life, society and culture in ancient Central America and Mexico, with over 500 photographs and fine art images. London: Lorenz Books, 2005	Mexico, Central America
Santa Anna	1822-1855	Ruth R Olivera; Liliane Crété. Life in Mexico under Santa Anna, 1822-1855. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991	Mexico
National characteristics	Modern	Jorge G Castañeda. Mañana forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans. New York, New York: Vintage Books 2012	Mexico
Folklore		Haldeen Braddy. Mexico and the old Southwest; people, palaver, places. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1971	Mexico, Southwest