Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America / edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Maria Ximena Senatore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Funari, Pedro Paulo A., Editor.

Senatore, María Ximena, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Local Subjects:

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 era. Archaeology has been exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures from early times, but only in the last few decades have cultural contact and material world been recognized as crucial elements to understanding colonialism and the emergence of modernity. Modern colonialism studies pose questions in need of broader answers. This volume explores these answers in Spanish and Portuguese America, comprising present-day Latin America and formerly Spanish territories now part of the United States. The volume addresses studies of the particular features of Spanish-Portuguese colonialism, as well as the specificities of Iberian colonization, including hybridism, religious novelties, medieval and modern social features, all mixed in a variety of ways unique and so different from other areas, particularly the Anglo-Saxon colonial thrust. Cultural contact studies offer a particularly in-depth picture of the uniqueness of Latin America in terms of its cultural mixture. This volume particularly highlights local histories, revealing novelty, diversity, and creativity in the conformation of the new colonial realities, as well as presenting Latin America as a multicultural arena, with astonishing heterogeneity in thoughts, experiences, practices, and material worlds.

Contents:

Foreword 1: Alfredo González-Ruibal

Foreword 2: Neil Silberman

Chapter 1: Introduction: Disrupting the grand narrative of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism Maria Ximena Senatore and Pedro P. A. Funari

Section 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 approach André Teixeira, Joana Bento Torres and José Bettencourt

Chapter 3: The early colonisation of the Rio de la Plata basin and the settlement of Sancti Spiritus, Agustin Azkarate and Sergio Escribano Ruiz

Chapter 4: Technological transformations: adaptationist, relativist, and economic models in Mexico and Venezuela Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Ana María Navas Méndez and Franz Scaramelli

Chapter 5: Tribute, Antimarkets and Consumption: An Archaeology of Capitalist Effects in Colonial Guatemala Guido Pezzarossi

Chapter 6: Ek Chuah encounters the holy ghost in the colonial labyrinth: ideology and commerce on both sides of the Spanish invasion Susan Kepecs

Chapter 7: Archaeology of contact in Cuba, a reassessment Lourdes Domínguez and Pedro Paulo A. Funari

Section II: Local histories: diversity, creativity and novelty

Chapter 8: Dress, faith, and medicine: Caring for the body in 18th-century Spanish Texas Diana DiPaolo Loren

Chapter 9: Uncommon Commodities: Articulating the Global and the Local on the Orinoco Frontier Franz Scaramelli and Kay Scaramelli

Chapter 10: Women in Spanish Colonial Contexts Nan A. Rothschild.-Chapter 11: Material culture, mestizage, and social segmentation in Santarém, northern Brazil Luís Cláudio Pereira Symanski and Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes.-Chapter 12: Modernity at the edges of the Spanish Enlightenment. Novelty and material culture in Floridablanca Colony (Patagonia, 18th century) Maria Ximena Senatore

Section III: New realities and material worlds

Chapter 13: Basque fisheries in Eastern Canada, a special case of cultural encounter in the colonizing of North America Sergio Escribano-Ruiz and Agustín Azkarate

Chapter 14: The Spanish occupation of the Central Lowlands of South America: Santa Cruz de la Sierra la Vieja Horacio Chiavazza

Chapter 15: Nautical landscapes in the 16th century: an archaeological approach to the coast of São Paulo (Brazil) Paulo Fernando Bava de Camargo

Chapter 16: Fort San José, a Remote Spanish Outpost in Northwest Florida, 1700-1721 Julie Rogers Saccente and Nancy Marie White

Chapter 17: Striking it Rich in the Americas' First Boom Town: Economic Activity at Concepción de la Vega (Hispaniola) 1495-1564 Pauline Kulstad

Chapter 18: Brazil Baroque, Baroque mestizo: heritage, archaeology, modernism and the “Estado Novo” in the Brazilian context Rita Juliana Soares Poloni

Final Comments

Chapter 19: Narratives of Colonialism, Grand and Not-So-Grand: A Critical Reflection on the Archaeology of the Spanish and Portuguese Americas Barbara L. Voss. .

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

3-319-08069-5

OCLC:

895161890