Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

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.

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Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

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.

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Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

by Matthew Goldmark
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Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

by Matthew Goldmark

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780813949390
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication date: 02/24/2023
Series: Writing the Early Americas
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 188
File size: 522 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Misuse and Maternity: Infanticide and the Relations of Conquest
2. Recomposing Legitimacy: Gender Relations and Indigenous Authorship
3. Good Examples: Textual Forms and the Reproduction of Custom
4. Form and the Future: Use and the Unfinished Work of Evangelization
Coda

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Ralph Bauer

In a rich and wide-ranging study that sheds fresh light on texts by Bartolomé de Las Casas, Titu Cusi Yupanqui, José de Acosta, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and other important writers, Matthew Goldmark shows how colonial textual forms produce, rather than merely document, colonial kinship relations in the early Americas.

Eduardo González

A thoroughly documented and theorized book, of the highest intellectual and interpretative caliber. Goldmark's authoritative rapport with current as well as more historical publications in the field is stunning. A first-order contribution to colonial studies.

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