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

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Stanford University Press, 1991 - 424 pages
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.
 

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The Eighteenth Century
144
Honor and Marriage
227
Marriage and the Church
241
Marriage The Empirical Evidence
295
Epilogue
337
Notes
343
Bibliography
389

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