Alluvium and Empire : The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru's North Coast.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Studying Empire, Genealogically -- 2. The Development of Reducción -- 3. Environment, Settlement, and Indigenous Political Subjectivity in Zaña Before the Reducción General -- 4. How Reducción Worked: Indigenous Resettlement and Regional Transformation in the Zaña Valley During the Late Sixteenth Century -- 5. After-Affects: The Transformation and Persistence of Indigenous Communities and Reducción in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Methodological Essay -- Archival Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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