Studies in Culture Contact : Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (462 pages)
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- I. Perspectives on the Study of Culture Contact in Archaeology: Concepts and Critiques -- 2. Transculturation and Spanish American Ethnogenesis: The Archaeological Legacy of the Quincentenary -- 3. Contexts of Contact and Change: Peripheries, Frontiers, and Boundaries -- 4. Culture Contact in Evolutionary Perspective -- 5. Evolutionary Theory and the Native American Record of Artifact Replacement -- 6. Culture Contact Structure and Process -- 7. Historiography of Acculturation: An Evaluation of Concepts and Their Application in Archaeology -- 8. Violent Encounters: Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in Long-Term Contact Situations -- 9. Cultural Interaction and African American Identity in Plantation Archaeology -- II. Archaeological Case Studies in Culture Contact -- 10. 30,000 Years of Culture Contact in the Southwest Pacific -- 11. World System Theory and Alternative Modes of Interaction in the Archaeology of Culture Contact -- 12. Nubia and Egypt: Interaction, Acculturation, and Secondary State Formation from the Third to First Millennium B.C. -- 13. Consumption, Agency, and Cultural Entanglement: Theoretical Implications of a Mediterranean Colonial Encounter -- 14. Culture Contact, Identity, and Change in the European Provinces of the Roman Empire -- 15. Toltec Invaders and Spanish Conquistadors: Culture Contact in the Postclassic Teotihuacán Valley, Mexico -- 16. Culture Contact and Change in West Africa -- 17. Cultural Transformation Within Enslaved Laborer Communities in the Caribbean -- 18. Forced Relocation, Power Relations, and Culture Contact in the Missions of La Florida -- 19. Some Think It Impossible to Civilize Them at All: Cultural Change and Continuity Among the Early Nineteenth-Century Potawatomi. 20. Lacandón Maya Culture Change and Survival in the Lowland Frontier of the Expanding Guatemalan and Mexican Republics -- 21. Afterword: Toward an Archaeological Theory of Culture Contact -- Contributors -- Index.