Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica Archaeology as Historical Anthropology

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.

ISBN:	9780826359735
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Published date:	30 Nov 2018
DEWEY:	972.01
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xiii, 433
Weight:	1404g
Height:	224mm
Width:	290mm
Spine width:	39mm

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