Item #277016 When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Ramon Gutierrez.

When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

Stanford University Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. Item #277016
ISBN: 0804718326

424 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Light edge wear.

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.

Price: $15.00

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