Brutality and Benevolence: Human Ethology, Culture, and the Birth of Mexico

by Abel A. Alves

The 16th-century conquest of Mexico and its effects are best understood as cultural manifestations of animal behavior patterns which humans share with other primates. While Nahuas and Spaniards can be distinguished on the basis of learned cultural differences, such differences only exaggerated particular expressions of the universal behavioral patterns they shared. Brutality and benevolence were used in the same way by both to establish hierarchy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031329982X
• ISBN13: 9780313299827
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"