The Faces of Honor

Lyman L. Johnson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the general editor for UNM Press's Dialogos series. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera is a professor of history at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the author of Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750-1856 and To Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla (UNM Press), and she is the coeditor of Emotions and Daily Life in Colonial Mexico (UNM Press) and The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America (UNM Press).

. . . a fine collection of essays . . . [the book] succeeds in providing insight into the many faces of honor in colonial Latin America. The essays are well-written and accessible to an undergraduate audience. And they are highly entertaining. They contain poignant stories of ordinary people. . . . The articles fit together well, examining similar issues from a variety of perspectives. . . . [they] add important new insights to the study of honor, which should be of interest to scholars. . . . the volume provides serious historical material and intriguing stories that ought to be successful in teaching. . . . a fine collection of essays . . . Ythe book? succeeds in providing insight into the many faces of honor in colonial Latin America. The essays are well-written and accessible to an undergraduate audience. And they are highly entertaining. They contain poignant stories of ordinary people. . . . This anthology is ideally suited for classroom use by undergraduates . . . not only due to the contributors generous use of case studies . . . but also because of their almost total avoidance of the leaden jargon favored by many . . .