Forms of Relation

Matthew Goldmark

ISBN 10: 0813949386 / ISBN 13: 9780813949383

Editore: University of Virginia Press, US, 2023

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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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• Titolo: Forms of Relation
• Editore: University of Virginia Press, US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813949386
• ISBN 13: 9780813949383
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 272 grammi

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Riassunto

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities.

Goldmark analyzes these ties as forms of kinship forged outside of the well-studied paradigms of sex, biology, and procreation. He demonstrates how colonial actors—Spanish and Indigenous—vied for power when they argued that identity could be shaped by spiritual fatherhood, standardized education, or the regulation of doctrine.

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

Informazioni sull?autore

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