Colonialism, Material Culture, and Identity in the Rio Grande and Hudson River Valleys

Abstract

A comparison of two seventeenth-century colonial encounters in North America, examining the Pueblo-Spanish interaction in New Mexico and the Mohawk-Dutch situation in New York. I focus on material culture flows, the role of women, forms of labor that were extracted in each setting and how each of these contributed to power relations and identity construction.

Ceramic Production and Social Change in the South east of the Iberian Peninsula between the Islamic and Christian Periods: The Case of Granada

“…In order to reveal changes in ceramic production, the archaeological material was characterized typologically and chronologically. Previous studies that link colonial processes of expansion and conquest, and the related phenomena of change and resistance, as reflected in ceramic production, have been used as reference (Gronenborn and Magnavita 2000;Rothschild 2006;Webster 1999). We have also taken into consideration studies that examine movement of populations, Fig.…”

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

“…The complex repercussions of colonialism are evident in recent archaeological studies in the American West (Allen 2010a, b;Carter et al 2005;Liebmann 2006;Lightfoot 2005Lightfoot , 2006Mills and Martinez 1997;Pavao-Zuckerman and LaMotta 2007;Rothschild 2006;Silliman 2004Silliman , 2005Thomas 1989;Wilcox 2002Wilcox , 2009Wilcox , 2010aZimmerman 2007), revealing the influence of postcolonial theory on archaeology (Orser 2010, p. 136). Postcolonial approaches question the ''knowledge about and the representation of colonized 'Others' that has been produced in colonial and imperial contexts,'' providing a ''theoretical stance'' to investigate and challenge the discourses of colonialism (Liebmann 2008, pp.…”

Colonial Encounters, European Kettles, and the Magic of Mimesis in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century Indigenous Northeast and Great Lakes

“…Material dependency was seen as both a rapid and an inevitable outcome of European contact (Wagner 1998, p. 411;White 1991, p. 129). Years of scholarly research has slowly been deconstructing this onesided and linear story of colonial encounter (for a small sampling of such work, see Aswani and Sheppard 2003;Bradley 1987;Deagan 1998Deagan , 2004DuVal 2006;Ethridge 2003;Ethridge and Hudson 2002;Gassón 2000;Nassaney 2004;Nassaney and Johnson 2003;Rothschild 2006;Rubertone 1989;Silliman 2009;Spielmann et al 2009;Thomas 1991;Voss 2008;Wagner 1998;White 1991).…”