... of marriages of the macehualtin— polygamy, sororate, and levirate. Based on the available material (early censuses, inquisitorial records, sixteenth-century accounts) it discusses the functions that these types of unions played in Nahua society. Moreover, it reflects on the effects that the Christianization...

..., including polygamy, a practice that increased the number of hands available to help with production. Moreover, Palka highlights the transformations in Lacandon religion as increased contact with outsiders elevated Akyantho, the god of trade and foreigners, over other deities (121). Joan Bristol discerns how...

... concubinage were established as the means by which Guaraní chieftains and Spanish conquistadors brought power, wealth, and prestige to their homes and communities. The few available studies of this early history have provided descriptive accounts of Spanish colonial polygamy. Austin is the first to examine...

...: the Indians continue to worship idols and hold congress with Satan, and revel in polygamy and abandoned sexuality. They “sleep together like chickens” (41), he writes—one of several animal comparisons in the text. Above all, he routinely describes them as cannibals. Benzoni’s depiction of the native...

..., the sermon’s mention of slavery and its abolishment seems to fall into place, however circumstantially, with the orthographic and philological analysis that places the text in the early to mid-­sixteenth century.34 The practice of polygamy was also commonplace among the Nahua nobility. Plural...

... missionaries. Nevertheless, the Xavante con- tinued to live largely as before, as their diet remained the same, and polygamy continued. Garfield observes, however, that government patron- age did initiate one ongoing change...

... subordinate, citing the practice of polygamy by powerful men and scarification of adulterous wives. 73 A division commander provided a brief description of a Puri custom that resembles the wai’a , or ritualized group rape still observed among some Jê groups in western Brazil in the mid-twentieth century...

... little to do with the Miskitu villages, which remained largely autonomous.38 Beyond this, the kings steadily lost a major mechanism of political integration: polygamy. Kings had to be monogamous and Chris- tian to pass muster as respectable rulers to an international audience. It was only now...

... 189 Surely the Indians had a rather different view than the Spaniards did on what was called concubinage and polygamy, as is already well known. Here we see, with John F. Chuchiak IV, that celibacy for indigenous priests existed, but that it was ritual and therefore temporary; also...

... accused another of being the illegitimate child of a female slave and noble father, which became a euphemistic way of describing a polygamy. See Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec, 1500–1700 (Norman, OK, 1995), 53, 57n; and Sarah Cline, “The Spiritual Conquest Reexamined...

... Polygamy was the rule for Maya kings, but apparently higher and even mid-level nobles could take a large number of concubines. Juan Gutiérrez Picón, encomendero of Ekbalam, observed that although the lords and rich principal men were each “assigned one woman, this did not stop them from...

... in the New World (New Haven, CT, 1994). 45 Toribio Motolinía’s account of Indian witchcraft follows his account of Indian polygamy, and he links the Spanish virtues of baptism and monogamy while describing Indian devotion to Christian friars: “Our fathers, why are you...

... in 1849 and initially reported resistance to their Christianizing efforts owing to the condemnation of many traditional Mosquito practices, such as shamanism and polygamy. Despite their paternalistic views of the Mosquito, Moravian missionaries nonetheless provided important cultural resources through...

... the “administrative violence” (19) of Canada’s Indian Act and US laws against polygamy. In the case of the 1876 Indian Act, for a Native woman to agree to marry a white man was to agree to one’s own tribal death, since the act legislated a loss of Indian status and accompanying rights for those women...

... such as Johnson’s “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” and Oskison’s “The Problem of Old Harjo” explore the “administrative violence” (19) of Canada’s Indian Act and US laws against polygamy. In the case of the 1876 Indian Act, for a Native woman to agree to marry a white man was to agree to one’s own tribal death...

... such as Johnson’s “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” and Oskison’s “The Problem of Old Harjo” explore the “administrative violence” (19) of Canada’s Indian Act and US laws against polygamy. In the case of the 1876 Indian Act, for a Native woman to agree to marry a white man was to agree to one’s own tribal death...

.... Assimilation polices were dispropor- tionately directed against Native women, and stories such as Johnson’s “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” and Oskison’s “The Problem of Old Harjo” explore the “administrative violence” (19) of Canada’s Indian Act and US laws against polygamy. In the case of the 1876 Indian Act...

...- tionately directed against Native women, and stories such as Johnson’s “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” and Oskison’s “The Problem of Old Harjo” explore the “administrative violence” (19) of Canada’s Indian Act and US laws against polygamy. In the case of the 1876 Indian Act, for a Native woman to agree...

... the “administrative violence” (19) of Canada’s Indian Act and US laws against polygamy. In the case of the 1876 Indian Act, for a Native woman to agree to marry a white man was to agree to one’s own tribal death, since the act legislated a loss of Indian status and accompanying rights for those women...

... such as Johnson’s “A Red Girl’s Reasoning” and Oskison’s “The Problem of Old Harjo” explore the “administrative violence” (19) of Canada’s Indian Act and US laws against polygamy. In the case of the 1876 Indian Act, for a Native woman to agree to marry a white man was to agree to one’s own tribal death...