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When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 / Ramón A. Gutiérrez.

Summary:

"This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view."--Amazon.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0804718164
  • ISBN: 9780804718165
  • ISBN: 0804718326
  • ISBN: 9780804718325
  • Physical Description: xxxi, 424 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1991.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-415) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The Pueblo Indian world in the sixteenth century -- The Spanish conquest of New Mexico -- Seventeenth-century politics -- The reconquest of New Mexico -- Honor and social status -- Honor and virtue -- Honor and marriage -- Marriage and the church --Marriage, the empirical evidence -- The bourbon reforms on the Northern Frontier.
Subject:
Marriage > New Mexico > History.
Pueblo Indians > Social conditions.
Pueblo Indians > Sexual behavior.
Marriage.
Pueblo Indians > Sexual behavior.
Pueblo Indians > Social conditions.
New Mexico.
Genre:
History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library HQ 835 .N6 G88 1991 250585 Stacks Available -

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