Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas

Archaeological Case Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39245-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: The Early Americas: History and Culture

Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 15 case studies focusing on the early colonial history and archaeology of indigenous cultural persistence and change in the Caribbean and its surrounding mainland(s) after AD 1492. With a special emphasis on material culture and by foregrounding indigenous agency in shaping the diverse outcomes of colonial encounters, this volume offers new perspectives on early modern cultural interactions in the first regions of the ‘New World’ that were impacted by European colonization. The volume contributors specifically investigate how foreign goods were differentially employed, adopted, and valued across time, space, and scale, and what implications such material encounters had for indigenous social, political, and economic structures.

Contributors are: Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. M. Antczak, Oliver Antczak, Jaime J. Awe, Martijn van den Bel, Mary Jane Berman, Arie Boomert, Jeb J. Card, Charles R. Cobb, Gérard Collomb, Shannon Dugan Iverson, Marlieke Ernst, William R. Fowler, Perry L. Gnivecki, Christophe Helmke, Shea Henry, Gilda Hernández Sánchez, Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Rosemary A. Joyce, Floris W.M. Keehnen, J. Angus Martin, Clay Mathers, Maxine Oland, Alberto Sarcina, Russell N. Sheptak, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Robyn Woodward.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hofman, Corinne

Keehnen, Floris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: What’s in a Name?

Charles R. Cobb

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas

Floris W.M. Keehnen, Corinne L. Hofman and Andrzej T. Antczak

2 Colonial Encounters in Lucayan Contexts

Mary Jane Berman and Perry L. Gnivecki

3 Treating ‘Trifles’: the Indigenous Adoption of European Material Goods in Early Colonial Hispaniola (1492–1550)

Floris W.M. Keehnen

4 Contact and Colonial Impact in Jamaica: Comparative Material Culture and Diet at Sevilla la Nueva and the Taíno Village of Maima

Shea Henry and Robyn Woodward

5 European Material Culture in Indigenous Sites in Northeastern Cuba

Roberto Valcárcel Rojas

6 Breaking and Making Identities: Transformations of Ceramic Repertoires in Early Colonial Hispaniola

Marlieke Ernst and Corinne L. Hofman

7 Rancherías: Historical Archaeology of Early Colonial Campsites on Margarita and Coche Islands, Venezuela

Andrzej T. Antczak, Ma. Magdalena Antczak and Oliver Antczak

8 Santa María de la Antigua del Darién: the Aftermath of Colonial Settlement

Alberto Sarcina

9 Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in Early Colonial El Salvador

William R. Fowler and Jeb J. Card

10 Hybrid Cultures: the Visibility of the European Invasion of Caribbean Honduras in the Sixteenth Century

Russell N. Sheptak and Rosemary A. Joyce

11 Exotics for the Lords and Gods: Lowland Maya Consumption of European Goods along a Spanish Colonial Frontier

Jaime J. Awe and Christophe Helmke

12 Resignification as Fourth Narrative: Power and the Colonial Religious Experience in Tula, Hidalgo

Shannon Dugan Iverson

13 Indigenous Pottery Technology of Central Mexico during Early Colonial Times

Gilda Hernández Sánchez

14 War and Peace in the Sixteenth-Century Southwest: Objected-oriented Approaches to Native-European Encounters and Trajectories

Clay Mathers

15 ‘Beyond the Falls’: Amerindian Stance towards New Encounters along the Wild Coast (AD 1595–1627)

Martijn M. Bel van den and Gérard Collomb

16 Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles: Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing World

Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L.P. Hoogland, Arie Boomert and John Angus Martin

Epilogue: Situating Colonial Interaction and Materials: Scale, Context, Theory

Maxine Oland

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Corinne L. Hofman, PhD (1993), Leiden University, is Professor of Caribbean Archaeology. She has published articles, book chapters, and edited volumes on the indigenous Caribbean, including The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology and The Caribbean before Columbus (Oxford University Press, 2013 and 2017).

Floris W.M. Keehnen, MA (2012), Leiden University, is a PhD student. In 2013, he obtained a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to investigate indigenous Caribbean attitudes towards European-introduced material culture in early colonial times (AD 1492-1550).