Colonial and postcolonial change in Mesoamerica : archaeology as historical anthropology /

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Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
Description:xiii, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11771854
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Other authors / contributors:Alexander, Rani T., 1962- editor.
Kepecs, Susan, 1946- editor.
ISBN:9780826359735
0826359736
Notes:Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-420) and index.
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Online version: Colonial and postcolonial change in Mesoamerica Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2018 9780826359742

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