Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands Tapa blanda - 2002

University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, May 2002. Trade . Good. Very Good- Softcover. Light to mild shelfwear to covers, including bent corners. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.

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… Leer más

Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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… Leer más

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