Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on non-procreative and non-biological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships to debates and struggles over colonial governance and identities.

Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation focuses on non-procreative and non-biological kinship ties, revealing the importance of these relationships to debates and struggles over colonial governance and identities.