{"product_id":"forms-of-relation-composing-kinship-in-colonial-spanish-america-9780813949383","title":"Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Matthew Goldmark\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, \u003ci\u003eForms of Relation\u003c\/i\u003e shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoldmark 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eForms of Relation\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates why we must interrogate the dominant paradigms of \u003ci\u003emestizaje, \u003c\/i\u003e heterosexuality, and biology that are too often left unchallenged in studies of Spanish colonialism, demonstrating how nonprocreative kinships shaped the Spanish colonial regime.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46416566878359,"sku":"9780813949383","price":4332.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813949383.webp?v=1769063882","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/forms-of-relation-composing-kinship-in-colonial-spanish-america-9780813949383","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}