Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas BorderlandsUniv of North Carolina Press, 30 nov 2009 - 416 páginas 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. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. 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. |
Índice
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From Contact to Conversion Bridging Religion and Politics 1720s1760s | 109 |
New Codes of War and Peace 1760s1780s | 197 |
Conclusion | 287 |
Notes | 293 |
347 | |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas ... Juliana Barr Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas ... Juliana Barr Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adaes Aguayo Akokisas Alarcón alliance allies Alonso de León Antonio de Béxar Apache women Athanase de Mézières bands bison Bolton Cabello caddís Caddo lands Caddo leaders Caddoan captives Casañas century ceremonies chief Coahuila Comanche communities Croix defense di√erent Diary diplomacy diplomatic Dolores y Viana e√orts enemies Espinosa European exchange expedition families Fernández de Santa Franciscans Francisco fray José French Frenchmen gender gifts governor groups Hasinai honor horses hunting Indian Joutel Juan Jumanos Karankawa kinship León Lipan Apaches living Los Adaes Louisiana male María marqués Martínez Pacheco Mazanet men’s Mexico military missionaries Nacogdoches Natchitoches native negotiations Norteño o√ered o≈cers Payayas peace Pedro Pichardo’s political presidio province raids rancherías relations Ripperdá rituals Salle’s San Antonio Missions San José San Sabá Santa Ana Schuetz Solís Spaniards Spanish o≈cials Taovaya Tejas Teodoro de Croix Texas missions tion trade Valero Vial viceroy Wichita Wichita leaders women and children
Referencias a este libro
First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History Colin G. Calloway No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |