On the Borders of Love and Power [electronic resource] : Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest
Adams, David Wallace.
DeLuzio, Crista.
Berkeley : University of California Press,
c2012.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE. DIVERSE FAMILIES AND RACIAL HIERARCHY; 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
PART TWO. LAW, ORDER, AND THE REGULATION OF FAMILY LIFE5. 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; PART THREE. BORDERLAND CULTURES AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
9. Intimate Ties: Marriage, Families, and Kinship in Eighteenth-Century Pueblo Communities10. The Paradox of Kinship: Native-Catholic Communities in Alta California, 1769-1840s; 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; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Family -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Hispanic Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- West (U.S.).
Hispanic Americans -- Kinship -- West (U.S.).
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- West (U.S.).
Indians of North America -- Kinship -- West (U.S.).
Kinship -- West (U.S.) -- History.
West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations.
West (U.S.) -- History.
Indians of North America
Indians of North America
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans
Frontier and pioneer life
Family
Kinship
Gender & Ethnic Studies
Social Sciences
Ethnic & Race Studies