When Jesus came, the Corn Mothers went away
Subtitle: marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
By: Ramón A. Gutiérrez.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Marriage -- New Mexico -- History; Pueblo Indians -- Social conditions; Pueblo Indians -- Sexual behavior
Description: "This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view."--Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-415) and index.