On the Borders of Love and Power Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest

Name: On the Borders of Love and Power Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
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ISBN: 9780520272392

ISBN-10: 0520272390

ISBN-13: 9780520272392

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Wallace Adams, Crista DeLuzio

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WithOn the Borders of Love and Power, a star-studded cast of scholars brings to life a new history of the family in the American Southwest. Embracing the cultural crossroads that made the region distinctive--particularly the collision of Anglo-American, Hispanic, and Native American cultural and political structures--the authors explore relationships between family life and larger power structures, documenting the wide range of ways family relations were constructed and experienced. Ultimately, the authors demonstrate that when the various peoples of the Southwest met, conflicts and negotiations over family life figured prominently in relation to larger struggles for conquest and control,…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 366
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

David Wallace Adamsis Professor of History at Cleveland State University and author ofEducation for Extinction.Crista DeLuziois Associate Professor of History at Southern Methodist University and author ofFemale Adolescence in American Scientific Thought.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Diverse Families and Racial Hierarchy



Breaking and Remaking Families: The Fostering and Adoption of Native American Children in Non-Native Families in the American West, 1880-1940




Becoming Comanches: Patterns of Captive Incorporation into Comanche Kinship Networks, 1820-1875




"Seeking the Incalculable Benefit of a Faithful, Patient Man and Wife": Families in the Federal Indian Service, 1880-1925




Hard Choices: Mixed-Race Families and Strategies of Acculturation in the U.S. West after 1848




Law, Order, and the Regulation of Family Life



Family and Kinship in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands: A Cultural Account




Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: Probating the ï¿½vila Estate in Frontier California




"Who has a greater job than a mother?" Defining Mexican Motherhood on the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Early Twentieth Century




Borderlands/La Familia: Mexicans, Homes, and Colonialism in the Early Twentieth-Century Southwest




Borderland Cultures and Family Relationships



Intimate Ties: Marriage, Families, and Kinship in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities




The Paradox of Kinship: Native-Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769-1840S




Territorial Bonds: Indenture and Affection in Intercultural Arizona, 1864-1894




Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: "The Family," "The West," and Their Chroniclers



Selected Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index