When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

Ramón A. Gutiérrez
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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.
Genres: HistoryAmerican HistoryNative American HistoryReligionFamilyAnthropologyNative AmericanGrad SchoolNonfictionLatin American History
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