When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away
Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Ramon A. Gutierrez
Award Winner
1992: Frederick Jackson Turner Award
Winner of the 1992 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, sponsored by the Organization of American Historians.1992: Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize
Winner of the 1992 Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, sponsored by the Conference on Latin American History.1992: James Rawley Award
Co-Winner of the 1992 James Rawley Award, sponsored by the Organization of American Historians.
February 1991
424 Pages
Paperback ISBN: 9780804718325
Ebook ISBN: 9780804766029
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.
