Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica
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Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica

Archaeology as Historical Anthropology

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica

Archaeology as Historical Anthropology

About this book

This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social histories that assess the cultural upheavals between the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica and the ethnographic present overlook the archaeological record, with its unique capacity to link local practices to global processes. To fill this gap, the authors weigh the material manifestations of the colonial and postcolonial trajectory in light of local, regional, and global historical processes that have unfolded over the last five hundred years. Research on a suite of issues—economic history, production of commodities, agrarian change, resistance, religious shifts, and sociocultural identity—demonstrates that the often shocking patterns observed today are historically contingent and culturally mediated, and therefore explainable. This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology's most crucial goals.

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Table of contents

  1. Book Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1. Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica: An Introduction by Susan Kepecs and Rani T. Alexander
  10. Part 1. Topical Syntheses
  11. Chapter 2. Mexico City, MĂ©rida, and the World: Kondratieff Waves on the Periphery by Susan Kepecs and Patricia Fournier GarcĂ­a
  12. Chapter 3. Commodities Production and Technological Change by Susan Kepecs, Patricia Fournier GarcĂ­a, Rani T. Alexander, and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton
  13. Chapter 4. Agrarian Ecology and Historical Contingency in Landscape Change by Rani T. Alexander, Janine Gasco, and Judith Francis Zeitlin
  14. Chapter 5. Archaeologies of Resistance by Rani T. Alexander, Susan Kepecs, Joel W. Palka, and Judith Francis Zeitlin
  15. Chapter 6. Religion and Ritual in Postconquest Mesoamerica by Judith Francis Zeitlin and Joel W. Palka
  16. Chapter 7. Sociocultural Identities by Judith Francis Zeitlin, Patricia Fournier GarcĂ­a, Joel W. Palka, and Janine Gasco
  17. Part 2. Case Studies
  18. Chapter 8. Historical Archaeology in the Basin of Mexico: The Otumba Case by Thomas H. Charlton and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton
  19. Chapter 9. Material Culture, Status, and Identity in Post-Independence Central Mexico: Urban and Rural Dimensions by Patricia Fournier GarcĂ­a
  20. Chapter 10. Indigenous Communities, Colonization, and Interethnic Interaction in Tehuantepec, 1450 to the Present by Judith Francis Zeitlin
  21. Chapter 11. Anthropogenic Landscapes of Soconusco, Past and Present by Janine Gasco
  22. Chapter 12. Cross-Cultural Interaction and Lacandon Ethnogenesis in the Southern Maya Lowland Frontier, AD 1400 to the Present by Joel W. Palka
  23. Chapter 13. Agrarian Ecology in Yucatán, 1450–2000 by Rani T. Alexander
  24. Chapter 14. The Longue Durée, from Salt to Sea Cucumbers: Krondratieff Waves in Chikinchel, on the Very Far Periphery by Susan Kepecs
  25. Chapter 15. The Underlying Aim of Historical Archaeology: A Conclusion by Susan Kepecs and Rani T. Alexander
  26. Glossary
  27. References Cited
  28. List of Contributors
  29. Index