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Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America /
Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring contact archaeology in the modern e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cham [Switzerland] :
Springer,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I Foreword; II Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; Chapter-1; Introduction: Disrupting the Grand Narrative of Spanish and Portuguese Colonialism; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Main Ideas; 1.2.1 Contribution of This Volume; 1.3 Disrupting the Master Narrative of Iberian Colonialism; 1.3.1 Ideas and Theoretical Concepts; 1.3.2 Times and Spaces; 1.3.3 Methodology, Sources, and Material Culture; 1.3.4 Colonial Discourse; 1.3.5 Spanish and Portuguese Colonialism in a Wider View; References; Part I; Posing Questions in Cultural Contact and Colonialism; Chapter-2.
- The Atlantic Expansion and the Portuguese Material Culture in the Early Modern Age: An Archaeological Approach2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Sugar: the Industrial Ceramics and the Sweet Consumption; 2.3 Tobacco and Smoking Pipes; 2.4 The Wood: From Dyes and Furniture to Shipbuilding-Mutations in Lisbon's Seascape; 2.5 Fruits, Plants and Animals: The Journey of the Species; 2.6 Slaves: Skeletons and Ceramics; 2.7 Ivory; 2.8 Final Remarks; References; Chapter-3; The Early Colonisation of the Rio de la Plata Basin and the Settlement of Sancti Spiritus.
- 3.1 Introduction: The When, Where, What and Why of Sancti Spiritus?3.2 The Position of Sancti Spiritus in the Historiography of the Spanish Colonisation of the Americas; 3.2.1 A Quick Assessment; 3.2.2 Reasoning Its Episodic Consideration; 3.3 The Sancti Spiritus Settlement, Beyond Colonisation; 3.3.1 Sancti Spiritus: A Colonisation Attempt and Example of Colonialism; 3.3.2 Sancti Spiritus: Network of Intercultural Relations and Icon of Resistance; 3.4 Things and Words, Some Insights on How We Could Make Use of Their Agencies; 3.5 Final Remarks; References; Chapter-4.
- Technological Transformations: Adaptationist, Relativist, and Economic Models in Mexico and Venezuela4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Central Mexico; 4.3 Economic Factors Affecting Technology Change in the Lowlands of the Orinoco; 4.4 Comparisons and Conclusion; References; Chapter-5; Tribute, Antimarkets, and Consumption: An Archaeology of Capitalist Effects in Colonial Guatemala; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Capitalism in Noncapitalist Contexts?; 5.3 Braudel, De Landa, and Antimarkets; 5.4 Developing an Archaeology of Capitalist and Antimarket Effects; 5.5 Background History; 5.6 Archaeological Research.
- 5.7 Tribute, Labor, and the Repartimiento de Bienes: Antimarkets in Colonial Guatemala5.8 Market Dependence and Temporal Dispossession: Antimarket Effects; 5.9 Conclusions; References; Chapter-6; Ek Chuah Encounters the Holy Ghost in the Colonial Labyrinth: Ideology and Commerce on Both Sides of the Spanish Invasion; 6.1 Introduction; 6.1.1 World Systems Theory; 6.2 The Late Postclassic Mesoamerican World System; 6.2.1 The Late Postclassic Ideological Infrastructure of Accumulation; 6.2.2 The Late Postclassic Ideology of Commerce in Yucatan.