Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by Brooks, James F - 2002-05-13

Chapel Nill NC: University of North Carolina Press , 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 419 pages. This sweeping, richly evocative study examines the origins and legacies of a flourishing captive exchange economy within and among native American and Euramerican communities throughout the Southwest Borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the nineteenth century. Indigenous and colonial traditions of capture, servitude, and kinship met and meshed in the borderlands, forming a "slave system" in which victims symbolized social wealth, performed services for their masters, and produced material goods under the threat of violence. Slave and livestock raiding and trading among Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos, Utes, and Spaniards provided labor resources, redistributed wealth, and fostered kin connections that integrated disparate and antagonistic groups even as these practices renewed cycles of violence and warfare. Always attentive to the corrosive effects of the "slave… Read More

Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Soiling on the side. Edition 2002. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Chapel Hill [North Carolina]; London [England]: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 1st Paperback Edition. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed. Physical description: 419 pages: illustrations, maps. Contents: Violence, exchange, and the honor of men -- Llaneros: creating a Plains borderland -- Pastores: creating a pastoral borderland -- Montaneses: traversing borderlands -- Elaborating the Plains borderlands -- Commerce, kinship, and coercion -- Peaks and valleys: the borderlands speak -- Closer and closer apart -- Epilogue: Refugio Gurriola Martinez -- Chronology -- Glossary of Spanish and Native American terms -- Appendix A: Navajo livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864 -- Appendix B: New Mexican livestock and captive raids, 1780-1864 -- Appendix C: New Mexican peonage and slavery… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throughout the Southwest borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th cent