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The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest : An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact /

In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses the question, What if we attempted to explain...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilcox, Michael V. (Michael Vincent), 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Repatriating history : indigenous archaeology and the Pueblo revolt of 1680
  • Creating the invisible Indian
  • Explaining the persistence of Indian cultures : ethnicity theory, social distance and the myth of acculturation
  • The mythologies of conquest : militarizing Jesus, slavery and rebellion in the Spanish borderlands
  • Abandonment as social stragegy : colonial violence and the Pueblo response
  • Seek and you shall find : mobility as social strategy, documenting evidence of contact and revolt period settlements
  • The archaeological correlates of ethnogenesis : community building at Old Cochiti
  • Repatriating Old Cochiti.