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Title: Peace Came in the Form of a Woman
Condition: New
Description: Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter - first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity - Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.
Author: Juliana Barr
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
EAN: 9780807857908
Format: Paperback
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807857908
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 614g
Language: English
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: 30/03/2007
Subtitle: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands
Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Year: 2007

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