| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. By James F. Brooks. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xii, 419 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2714-2. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-5382-8.)

Captives & Cousins is not a typical first book. James F. Brooks's sweeping study is briskly written, boldly stated, unapologetically judgmental, and informed by contemporary sensibilities. This is an ambitious inquiry by an ambitious scholar. Other than the index, there is nothing modest about this book.	1
From its first memorable sentences until its final words, Captives & Cousins will hold many of its readers hostage. This elegant and often eloquent narrative describes how	2
Native and European men fought to protect their communities and preserve personal repute yet participated in conflicts and practices that made the objects of their honor, women and children, crucial products of violent economic exchange. (p. 3)
The author argues that in the Southwest "a unifying web of intellectual, material, and emotional exchange" developed "with which Native and Euramerican men fought and traded to exploit and bind to themselves women and children of other peoples" (p. 31). In time, writes Brooks, captives became cousins. In time captives "became agents of conflict, conciliation, and cultural redefinition" (p. 31).	. . .

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