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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jamieson, Ross W

Titel

Domestic architecture and power : the historical archaeology of colonial Ecuador

Auflage

1st ed. 2002

Ort / Verlag

New York, New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2002]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-229) and index.
• Power, Colonialism, Domestic Life -- The History of Cuenca -- The Domestic Architecture of Colonial Cuenca -- The Rural Architecture Surrounding Cuenca -- Excavations -- The Domestic Material Culture of Colonial Cuenca -- Conclusions.
• Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology’s sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and particularly South America. Happily, this circumstance is ending as a growing number of recent projects are successfully integrating textual and material culture data in studies of the events and processes of the last 500 years. This interval and this region–often called Ibero-America–have been studied for a century or more by historians with traditional perspectives and emphases focusing on colonial elites and large-scale politico-economic events. Such inclinations fit well into world-system and other core-periphery models that have had a major impact on historical thought since the 1970's. Over the past 20 years or so, however, world-system models have come under fire from historians, anthropologists, and others, in part because the emphasis on global trends and the growth of capitalism denies the importance of understanding variability in local histories and circumstances. Historians have increasingly turned their attention to local, rural, and domestic contexts, thereby illuminating the great diversity of responses to colonial domination that were played out in the vast arena of the Americas. It is not coincidental that this is the intellectual climate in which historical archaeology is establishing itself in Central and South America.
• English
• Description based on print version record.