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Book SynopsisMaterial 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.
Table of ContentsPreface: 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
