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Title:

On the borders of love and power : families and kinship in the intercultural American Southwest / edited by David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xii, 353 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Kinship--West (U.S.)
Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--West (U.S.)
Hispanic Americans--Kinship--West (U.S.).
Hispanic Americans--West (U.S.)--West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--History.
Families--West (U.S.)--History.
Kinship--West (U.S.)--History.
West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations.
West (U.S.)--History.

Other Authors:

Adams, David Wallace.
DeLuzio, Crista, 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p.319-329) and index.

Contents:

Breaking and remaking families : the fostering and adoption of Native American children in non-native families in the American West, 1880-1940 / Margaret Jacobs -- Becoming Comanches : patterns of captive incorporation into Comanche kinship networks, 1820-1875 / Joaqu©Ưn Rivaya-Mart©Ưnez -- "Seeking the incalculable benefit of a faithful, patient man and wife" : families of the Federal Indian Service, 1880-1925 / Cathleen D. Cahill -- Hard choices : mixed-race families and strategies of acculturation in the U.S. West after 1848 / Anne F. Hyde -- Family and kinship in the Spanish and Mexican borderlands : a cultural acount / Ram©đn A. Guti©♭rrez -- Love, honor, and the power of law : probating the ©vila estate in frontier California / Donna C. Schuele -- "Who has a greater job than a mother?" : defining Mexican motherhood on the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century / Monica Perales -- Borderlands/La familia : Mexicans, homes, and colonialism in the early twentieth-century Southwest / Pablo Mitchell -- Intimate ties : marriage, families, and kinship in eighteenth-century Pueblo communities / Tracy Brown -- The paradox of kinship : Native-Catholic communities in Alta California, 1769-1840s / Erika P©♭rez -- Territorial bonds : indenture and affection in intercultural Arizona, 1864-1894 / Katrina Jagodinsky -- Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War : "the family," "the West," and their chroniclers / Susan Lee Johnson.

ISBN:

0520272390 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520272392 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520272382 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520272385 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)757476308

LCCN:

2011044243

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)