On the Borders of Love and Power Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest

Adams, David Wallace. (Author). DeLuzio, Crista. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780520951341 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0520951344 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (764 p.)
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:february.14 Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.