New Mexico and the Pimería Alta : The Colonial Period in the American Southwest

John Douglass, William M. Graves

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781607325734
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Colonialism and the process of state expansion into new territories far from the capitol and mother country have occurred for thousands of years across the globe. Within the American Southwest, colonial encounters and the processes of colonialism played out in notably divergent manners through time and space. The chapters in New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest, focus on the two major areas of the Southwest that witnessed the most intensive and sustained colonial encounters: the New Mexico Colony and the Pimería Alta. Although these broad areas share a similar early colonial history, the particular mix of players, socio-historical trajectories, and social relations within each area both led to, and were transformed by, markedly diverse colonial encounters. Understanding these different mixes of players, history, and social relations provides the foundation for conceptualizing the enormous changes wrought by colonialism throughout the region.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Foreword by David Hurst Thomas
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: A Brief Introduction to the Colonial Period in the American Southwest
• Part 1. The New Mexico Colony: Native and Colonist Worlds Colliding
• 2. “The Peace That Was Granted Had Not Been Kept”: Coronado in the Tiguex Province, 1540–1542
• 3. Meeting in Places: Seventeenth-Century Puebloan and Spanish Landscapes
• 4. Hopi Weaving and the Colonial Encounter: A Study of Persistence through Change
• 5. The Pueblo World Transformed: Alliances, Factionalism, and Animosities in the Northern Rio Grande, 1680–1700
• 6. Comanche New Mexico: The Eighteenth Century
• 7. Aquí Me Quedo: Vecino Origins and the Settlement Archaeology of the Rio del Oso Grant, New Mexico
• 8. Becoming Vecinos: Civic Identities in Late Colonial New Mexico
• 9. Moquis, Kastiilam, and the Trauma of History: Hopi Oral Traditions of Seventeenth-Century Franciscan Missionary Abuses
• Part 2. Divergent Histories and Experiences in the Pimería Alta, Southern Arizona
• 10. Population Dynamics in the Pimería Alta, ad 1650–1750
• 11. Missions, Livestock, and Economic Transformations in the Pimería Alta
• 12. Life in Tucson, on the Northern Frontier of the Pimería Alta
• 13. O’odham Irrigated Agriculture Response to Colonization on the Middle Gila River, Southern Arizona
• Part 3. Discussion and Comparative Viewpoints
• 14. The Archaeology of Colonialism in the American Southwest and Alta California: Some Observations and Comments
• 15. Materiality Matters: Colonial Transformations Spanning the Southwestern and Southeastern Borderlands
• List of Contributors
• Index