Forms of Relation : Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

Matthew Goldmark

ISBN 10: 0813949386 / ISBN 13: 9780813949383

Published by University Of Virginia Press, 2023

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on nonprocreative and nonbiological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships to debates and struggles over colonial governance and identities.Goldmark begins with one Dominican friar's polemic against Spanish abuses of Indigenous women's reproductive labor, which threatened to lead to maternal infanticide, the death of the Indies' populations, and the failure of evangelization. He consults texts from sixteenth-century Peru describing how Inca authorities thwarted marriages between nonelite Inca women and Spanish men in an attempt to preserve Inca political power. He uncovers Spanish and Criollo teachers' petitions, submitted in the early seventeenth century to the Archbishopric's Archive of Lima, that hoped to convince authorities that by following these petition authors' 'good examples,' an Indigenous person could claim Christian rights.Forms of Relation illustrates why we must and how we can interrogate the dominant paradigms of mestizaje, heterosexuality, and biology that are too often left unchallenged in studies of Spanish colonialism, demonstrating how nonprocreative kinships proved critical to the creation of that regime.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forms of Relation : Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America
• Publisher: University Of Virginia Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813949386
• ISBN 13: 9780813949383
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 10D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 282 grams

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Synopsis

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on nonprocreative and nonbiological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships to debates and struggles over colonial governance and identities.

Goldmark begins with one Dominican friar’s polemic against Spanish abuses of Indigenous women’s reproductive labor, which threatened to lead to maternal infanticide, the death of the Indies’ populations, and the failure of evangelization. He consults texts from sixteenth-century Peru describing how Inca authorities thwarted marriages between nonelite Inca women and Spanish men in an attempt to preserve Inca political power. He uncovers Spanish and Criollo teachers’ petitions, submitted in the early seventeenth century to the Archbishopric’s Archive of Lima, that hoped to convince authorities that by following these petition authors’ "good examples," an Indigenous person could claim Christian rights.

Forms of Relation illustrates why we must and how we can interrogate the dominant paradigms of mestizaje, heterosexuality, and biology that are too often left unchallenged in studies of Spanish colonialism, demonstrating how nonprocreative kinships proved critical to the creation of that regime.

About the Author

Matthew Goldmark is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida State University.