| Description |
xv, 252 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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." |
| Summary |
"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 cohabitation, the formation of a new household, or mutual dependence for subsistence. Couples who wished to separate did so without social reproach, and when adultery occurred, the blame centered not on the "fallen" woman but on the interloping man. Over time, such practices changed, but the emergence of new types of "Indian marriage" enabled the legal, social, and cultural survival of New England's native peoples." "The complex interplay between colonial power and native practice are treated with subtlety and wisdom in Colonial Intimacies. Ann Marie Plane uses travel narratives, missionary tracts, and legal records to reconstruct a previously neglected history."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
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Marriage customs and rites. (OCoLC)fst01010592
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Indians of North America -- Marriage customs and rites -- New England.
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| Genre/Form |
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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| Subject |
Ehe (DE-588)4013630-9
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Indians of North America -- Colonial period.
(OCoLC)fst01907009
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1775
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| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Marriage customs and rites.
(OCoLC)fst00969830
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Marriage customs and rites -- New England -- History -- Sources.
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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| Subject |
Neuengland (DE-588)4075306-2
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Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Indianer.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- Marriage customs and rites -- New England.
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| ISBN |
080143291X (cloth ; recycled, acid-free paper) |
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9780801432910 (cloth ; recycled, acid-free paper) |
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0801483638 (pbk. ; recycled, acid-free paper) |
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9780801483639 (pbk. ; recycled, acid-free paper) |
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