Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas: Material and Documentary Perspectives on Entanglement

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This scholarly collection explores the method and theory of the archaeological study of indigenous persistence and long-term colonial entanglement. Each contributor offers an examination of the complex ways that indigenous communities in the Americas have navigated the circumstances of colonial and postcolonial life, which in turn provides a clearer understanding of anthropological concepts of ethnogenesis and hybridity, survivance, persistence, and refusal. Indigenous Persistence in the Colonized Americas highlights the unique ability of historical anthropology to bring together various kinds of materials--including excavated objects, documents in archives, and print and oral histories--to provide more textured histories illuminated by the archaeological record. The work also extends the study of historical archaeology by tracing indigenous societies long after their initial entanglement with European settlers and colonial regimes. The contributors engage a geographic scope that spans Spanish, English, French, Dutch, and other models of colonization. Book Cover Half Title Title Copyright Table of Contents List of Illustrations Chapter 1. Introduction by Heather Law Pezzarossi and Russell N. Sheptak Chapter 2. Moving Masca: Persistent Indigenous Communities in Spanish Colonial Honduras by Russell N. Sheptak Chapter 3. Neither Contact nor Colonial: Seneca Iroquois Local Political Economies, 1670–1754 by Kurt A. Jordan and Peregrine A. Gerard-Little Chapter 4. From Cacao to Sugar: Long-Term Maya Economic Entanglement in Colonial Guatemala by Guido Pezzarossi Chapter 5. Brewed Time: Considering Anachronisms in the Study of Indigenous Persistence in New England by Heather Law Pezzarossi Chapter 6. Comanche Imperialism: The Materiality of Empire by Lindsay M. Montgomery Chapter 7. “Mission Indians” and Settler Colonialism: Rethinking Indigenous Persistence in Nineteenth-Century Central California by Lee M. Panich Chapter 8. The Sword and the Stone: History, Identity, and Territoriality among the Mapoyo People of the Venezuelan Orinoco Region by Kay Scaramelli and Franz Scaramelli Chapter 9. Indigneous Refusal of Settler Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century Central California: A Case from the Tolay Valley, Sonoma County by Peter A. Nelson Chapter 10. Materialities and Practices of Persistence: Indigenous Survivance in the Face of Settler Societies by Rosemary A. Joyce References Index