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Colonial Intimacies : Indian Marriage in Early New England /

"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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Auteur principal: Plane, Ann Marie, 1964-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • "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."