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When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Contributor(s): Gutierrez, Ramon a. (Author)
ISBN: 0804718326     ISBN-13: 9780804718325
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE:   $30.40  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 1991
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family
- History | United States - State & Local - General
Dewey: 306.850
LCCN: 90009512
Lexile Measure: 1460
Physical Information: 1.11" H x 6" W x 8.98" (1.30 lbs) 424 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Geographic Orientation - New Mexico
 
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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.