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Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. By James F. Brooks. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 419 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, glossary, appendixes, index. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper.)
      With this masterful, splendidly written book, James Brooks invites us into a world ravaged and ordered by "the 'messiness' of history-as-lived," where much is not what it seems, especially regarding human captivity, exchange, and kinship (p. 39). It is a world born of Brooks's profound intellectual curiosity and nurtured by "vastly interdisciplinary" immersion at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the School of American Research in Santa Fe, and elsewhere (p. 407). Despite close counsel of anthropologists and social theorists—who "pressed, always, for 'more theory!'"—Brooks is not seduced by their predilection for the non-European other (p. 406). He appears to have no favorites. . . .
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