Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America

A thoroughly documented and theorized book, of the highest intellectual and interpretative caliber. Goldmark's authoritative rapport with current as well as more historical publications in the field is stunning. A first-order contribution to colonial studies.

Eduardo González, Johns Hopkins University, Author of Cuba and the Fall: Christian Text and Queer Narrative in the Fiction of José Lezama Lima and Reinaldo Arenas

In a rich and wide-ranging study that sheds fresh light on texts by Bartolomé de Las Casas, Titu Cusi Yupanqui, José de Acosta, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and other important writers, Matthew Goldmark shows how colonial textual forms produce, rather than merely document, colonial kinship relations in the early Americas.

Ralph Bauer, University of Maryland, author of The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World