{"title":"\"A Great Bundle, a Large Packframe\": Carrying Burdens to Create Nahua Communities in Colonial Mexico","authors":"Lisa Sousa","doi":"10.1353/ecs.2023.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the importance of the Nahua concept of tequitl, a term that meant work, duty, task, office, and obligation, as an expression of indigeneity and community solidarity in colonial Mexico. Nahuas used collaborative labor arrangements within marriages and across households to establish and sustain social bonds. To work on behalf of others was an act of love, respect, and concern, and between couples, of intimacy. Nahuas often conceived of tequitl, whether office holding, tribute labor, or gendered work, as \"a great bundle, a large packframe\" that a person must carry to fulfill their obligations to others in their community.","PeriodicalId":45802,"journal":{"name":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2023.0005","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article examines the importance of the Nahua concept of tequitl, a term that meant work, duty, task, office, and obligation, as an expression of indigeneity and community solidarity in colonial Mexico. Nahuas used collaborative labor arrangements within marriages and across households to establish and sustain social bonds. To work on behalf of others was an act of love, respect, and concern, and between couples, of intimacy. Nahuas often conceived of tequitl, whether office holding, tribute labor, or gendered work, as "a great bundle, a large packframe" that a person must carry to fulfill their obligations to others in their community.
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As the official publication of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Eighteenth-Century Studies is committed to publishing the best of current writing on all aspects of eighteenth-century culture. The journal selects essays that employ different modes of analysis and disciplinary discourses to explore how recent historiographical, critical, and theoretical ideas have engaged scholars concerned with the eighteenth century.
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