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Between 1540 and 1880, several thousand Indian, Spanish, and Mexican women and children were enslaved by other Indians and Hispanics in the US Southwest. These slaves were not just objects of labor; they brought social prestige to their owners. Unlike African American slaves who were excluded from their owners' lives, slaves in the Spanish borderlands became members, albeit marginal, in the host community. Brooks's study of slavery, kinship, and community in the Southwest borderlands is an interesting study of this little-known slave system, but his work is much more than that. Brooks (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) illustrates the similarities of Spanish and Indian cultural traditions of capture, enslavement, adoption, and exploitation of outsiders (Spanish and non-Christians; Indians and other Indian tribes), then examines the groups' similar notions of honor, shame, and gender, claiming that each group saw the control of women as proof of an individual's status. Using conventional historical sources, Brooks adds ceremonial ritual and song, such as Los Comanches, the Pawnee Morning Star Ceremony, a 14th-century Iberian ballad, and ethnohistorical fieldwork, to reveal this heretofore incompletely understood social and economic Southwest slave tradition. General readers and most academic collections. L. Graves South Plains College