Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New EnglandHarvard University Press, 1. jul. 2009 - 334 strani In this book about families--those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants--Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common human problems. Using original sources--diaries, inventories, wills, court records--as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, she compares the family life of the English colonists with the lives of comparable groups remaining in England and of native Americans. She looks at social organization, patterns of work, gender relations, sexual practices, childbearing and childrearing, demographic changes, and ways of dealing with sickness and death. |
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Native New England | 1 |
Newcomers | 19 |
Taking the Land | 38 |
Sexuality Courtship and Marriage | 62 |
Bearing and Losing Children | 95 |
Childrearing and the Experience of Childhood | 117 |
Youth and Old Age | 156 |
Transitions The Narragansetts | 188 |
Transitions The English | 203 |
Select Bibliography | 239 |
Notes | 241 |
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Peoples of a Spacious Land: Families and Cultures in Colonial New England Gloria L. Main Omejen predogled - 2004 |