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Chiricahua and Janos
Lance R. Blyth
其他書名
Communities of Violence in the Southwestern Borderlands, 1680-1880
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2012-07-01
主題History / Latin America / MexicoHistory / Native AmericanHistory / United States / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
ISBN97808032417250803241720
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QsqkqV2E_LUC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Borderlands violence, so explosive in our time, has deep roots in history. Lance R. Blyth?s study of Chiricahua Apaches and the presidio of Janos in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands reveals how no single entity had a monopoly on coercion, and how violence became the primary means by which relations were established, maintained, or altered both within and between communities, to include the Spanish-Mexican settlement of Janos in Nueva Vizcaya, present-day Chihuahua, and the Chiricahua Apaches.
For more than two centuries violence was at the center of the relationships by which Janos and Chiricahua formed their communities. Violence created families by turning boys into men through campaigns and raids, which ultimately led to marriage and also determined the provisioning and security of these families, with acts of revenge and retaliation governing their attempts to secure themselves even as trade and exchange continued sporadically. This revisionist work reveals how during the Spanish, Mexican, and American eras both conflict and accommodation constituted these two communities that previous historians have often treated as separate and antagonistic. By showing not only the negative aspects of violence but also its potentially positive outcomes, Chiricahua and Janos helps us to understand violence not only in the southwestern borderlands but in borderland regions generally around the world.