![]() ![]() Women and children, as the symbols and objects of male honor, became the ultimate pawns in these violent exchanges when they were captured by or traded among the men of enemy groups. ![]() Despite their often violent nature, such interactions forged bonds between southwestern communities even as they frequently stimulated additional antagonisms and conflicts. Southwest 1 during the Spanish colonial and Mexican periods. Brooks examines the complex, ritualized, sometimes deeply painful exchanges of goods, animals, and people that occurred in what is now the U.S. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlandsīrooks, James F. ![]()
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