Captives and Cousins
Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a slave system in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-5382-5
- EAN: 9780807853825
- Produktnummer: 9698138
- Verlag: Omohundro Institute and University of North Caroli
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.5 cm 692 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 692
Über den Autor
JAMES F. BROOKS is assistant professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America.
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