Peru Social Life and Customs
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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 | Jean Descola; 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 | Luis Martín. 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 | Marvin Álisky. Historical dictionary of Peru. Metuchen, New Jersey : Scarecrow Press, 1979 | Peru | |
| Social life and customs, Native races | William W. Stein. 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 | Martínez Compañón. Trujillo del Perú. [Madrid, Spain : Ediciones Cultura Hispánica del Centro Iberoaméricano de Cooperación, 1978 | Peru, Trujillo | |
| Social life and customs, History | 1710-1820 | Jean Descola; 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 | León Trahtemberg Siederer. 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 | César Ferreira, César G. Ferreira, Eduardo Dargent-Chamot. Culture and Customs of Peru. Greenwood Press, 2003 | Peru |
| Social life and customs, Class formation, Women | Peter Gose. Deathly Waters And Hungry Mountains: Agrarian Ritual And Class Formation In An Andean Town. Semantic Scholar, 1994 | Peru | |
| Social life and customs, Governments, Trade | Frank George Carpenter. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political. Western W. Wilson Publisher, 1900 | South America | |
| Social life and customs, History, Women | Inca and Colonial Peru | Irene Marsha Silverblatt. 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 | Marisol de la Cadena. 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 | Karsten Paerregaard. Linking Separate Worlds: Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru. Routledge, 2020 | Peru |
| Social life and customs, History | 16th Century | James Lockhart. 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 | James Lockhart. Spanish Peru, 1532–1560: A Social History. University of Wisconsin Press, 1994 | Peru |
| Social life and customs, Family Change | Laura Cuesta, Vanessa Ríos-Salas, Daniel R. Meyer. The Impact of Family Change on Income Poverty in Colombia and Peru. University of Toronto Press, 2017 | Peru | |
| Social life and customs, History | César Ferreira; Eduardo Dargent-Chamot. Culture and customs of Peru. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003 | Peru | |
| Social life and customs, Funeral Customs and rites | Jeffrey Quilter. 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. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/peru/oclc/748360794&referer=brief_results Peru Petaluma, Calif. : World Trade Press, 2010 | Peru |
| Social life and customs, Travel, Etiquette | Modern | John Forrest; Julia Porturas . Peru. London : Kuperard, 2012 | Peru |
| Social life and customs, Religion | Modern | Bernabé Cobo; Roland Hamilton. Inca religion and customs. Austin : University of Texas Press, 1990 | Peru |
| Social life and customs, History, Manners | 1710-1820 | Jean Descola. Daily life in colonial Peru 1710-1820. London, Allen & Unwin, 1968 | Peru |
| Social life and customs, History | Peter T Bradley; David Patrick Cahill. Habsburg Peru : images, imagination and memory. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000 | Peru | |
| Social life and customs, Women, Clothing | Blenda Femenias. 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 | Nicholas A Robins. 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 | Michael A Malpass. Daily life in the Inca empire. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009 | Inca empire | |
| Social life and customs, History, Politics | Jane Holligan de Díaz-Límaco. Peru : a guide to the people, politics and culture. London : Latin America Bureau, 1998 | Peru |
See also Peru Minorities and Peru Native Races.