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Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba /

This work enables scholars to examine how the encomienda labor draft worked in the hinterlands, without the everyday presence of Spanish overlords or priests. It allows not only the first opportunity to bring the key research at El Chorro to the attention of the international scholarly community, ad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • From contact to the colonial situation
  • Cuba: the Spanish colonization
  • El Chorro de Maíta: a first look
  • Recognizing the living space
  • The cemetery: death and human diversity
  • Mortuary practices in a colonial environment
  • An Indian town in times of the encomienda
  • Summary and conclusions.