When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
"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
Print Book, English, 1991
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1991
History
xxxi, 424 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780804718165, 9780804718325, 0804718164, 0804718326
21079072
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
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