...This chapter examines several sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese texts on Guizhou province to see how the evolution of Chinese knowledge of Guizhou and its inhabitants represented China's conquest and incorporation of this part of the Southwest Frontier. In traditional Chinese...

...The introductory essay outlines the key themes of the twelve chapters collected in the volume. The authors provide an overview of the history of the three ethnocultural groups populating the American Southwest that are the focus of the chapters in the book: Native Americans, Hispanics, and Anglo...

...Over the span of history, notions of both biological and fictive kinship have had varying degrees of influence. In this chapter on the history of the family as it evolved in both Europe and the Spanish and Mexican borderlands in the US Southwest, Gutiérrez demonstrates how intense emotional...

...This chapter examines a set of criminal appeals cases involving ethnic Mexicans in order to explore contestations over domestic relations in the early twentieth-century Southwest. The author finds that Anglo trial participants frequently denigrated Mexican families in the courtroom, thereby...

... became a language of politics as Spanish speakers in the U.S. Southwest used it to build territorial and state governments. In the twentieth century, Spanish became a political language where speakers and those opposed to its use clashed over what Spanish's presence in the United States meant. This book...

... a northern hunting and gathering society to a farming, then herding, then wage-earning society in the American Southwest, were accompanied by changes not only in social organization but also in religion. The book sees evidence of internal historical conflicts in the varying versions of the creation myth...

...Ancestral Pueblo farmersexpanded into the deep, productive, well-watered soils of the central Mesa Verde region of southwestern Colorado around AD 600, and within two centuries built some of the largest villages known up to that time in the American Southwest. But only one hundred years later...

...On the Borders of Love and Power explores relationships between family life and larger structures of social and political power in the intercultural American Southwest from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries. The essays document a range of ways in which various...

...This chapter evaluates the implementation of the Marriage Law in China's southwest frontier during the period from 1950 to 1953. It shows that both Han men and women in Yunnan from various ethnic minorities very frequently petitioned state institutions to resolve their family disputes...

...Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, which brings this little-known part of the world to life, is a collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society...

...This book studies writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon's...

...This chapter examines how state power and sexual science converged in German Southwest Africa during the early twentieth century by focusing on the case of Victor van Alten. Between 1904 and 1906, van Alten, a German colonist, was tried three times for “indecent conduct contrary to nature” after...

.... Then, it investigates the consequences of a scientific enterprise that fits the pattern of Anglo-Mexican relations in the U.S. Southwest over the past century and a half. Moreover, the chapter evaluates the ways that blood samples taken from racially marked populations operate within a regime of value production...

.... Throughout the 1950s, this conflict was like a dangerous riptide pulling all sorts of issues into its midst, not only on the Tibetan side, but also on the Chinese side, where it created a deep split between the leaders of the Northwest and Southwest Bureaus in Tibet. dalai lamas in Chinese sources estate...

...—stretching from the American Southwest to the tip of the Southern Cone—became Europeanized in the colonial period, and how the European and American civilizations transformed one another as they grew together. The book departs from traditional historical thought by situating the narrative in the context...