"This social history of one remote corner of Spain's colonial American empire uses marriage as a window into intimate social relations, examining the Spanish conquest of America and its impact on a group of indigenous peoples, the Pueblo Indians, seen in large part from their point of view."--Amazon.

The Pueblo Indian world in the sixteenth century -- The Spanish conquest of New Mexico -- Seventeenth-century politics -- The reconquest of New Mexico -- Honor and social status -- Honor and virtue -- Honor and marriage -- Marriage and the church --Marriage, the empirical evidence -- The bourbon reforms on the Northern Frontier.