Colonial intimacies : Indian marriage in early New England /

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"Native American marital relations and domestic lives were anathema to English Christians: elite native men frequently took more than one wife, while other men and women could dissolve their marriages and take new partners with relative ease. Native marriage did not necessarily involve cohabita...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Plane, Ann Marie, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1600-1775
Indians of North America > Marriage customs and rites > New England.
Indians of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Marriage customs and rites > New England > History > Sources.
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Mariage > Rites et cérémonies > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > Sources.
Indians of North America > Colonial period.
Indians of North America > Marriage customs and rites.
Marriage customs and rites.
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New England > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
New England.
Neuengland
Indianer.
History.
Sources.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Amongst their nation"
  • "My heart did love the having of two wives"
  • "They had made a Law against it"
  • "In their Families"
  • "They ... take one another without Ceremony"
  • "At the Marriages of their Sachems."

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