On the Borders of Love and Power : Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest / David Wallace Adams, Crista DeLuzio.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, David Wallace, Editor.

DeLuzio, Crista, 1966- Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Kinship--West (U.S.).

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--West (U.S.).

Hispanic Americans--Kinship--West (U.S.).

Hispanic Americans.

Hispanic Americans--West (U.S.)--Cultural assimilation.

Frontier and pioneer life--History--West (U.S.).

Frontier and pioneer life.

Families--History--West (U.S.).

Families.

Kinship--History.

Kinship.

West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

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

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

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

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

6. Love, Honor, and the Power of Law: Probating the Ávila Estate in Frontier California

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

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

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

10. The Paradox of Kinship: Native- Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769-1840's

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

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

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613813121

9781282242005

1282242008

9780520951341

0520951344

OCLC:

795120548