When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846This 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. |
Contents
The Sixteenth Century | 3 |
The Seventeenth Century | 39 |
The Eighteenth Century | 143 |
Epilogue | 337 |
| 417 | |
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When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power ... Ramón A Gutiérrez No preview available - 1991 |
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