Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas

by J. Daniel Rogers (Editor), Samual M. Wilson (Editor)

Overview

Incorporating both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence, this volume reexamines the role played by native peoples in structuring interaction with Europeans. The more complete historical picture presented will be of interest to scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, and history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306441769
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/31/1993
Series:	Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- 1 • Historical Dynamics in the Contact Era.- II. Theoretical Orientations on Culture Contact.- 2 • Structure and History: Combining Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Contact Period Caribbean.- 3 • The Persistence of an Explanatory Dilemma in Contact Period Studies.- III. North America: Encounters with Villagers and Chiefdoms.- 4 • Stone Tools, Steel Tools: Contact Period Household Technology at Helo’.- 5 • The Social and Material Implications of Culture Contact on the Northern Plains.- 6 • Kee-Oh-Na-Wah’-Wah: The Effects of European Contact on the Caddoan Indians of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.- 7 • Economic and Adaptive Change among the Lake Superior Chippewa of the Nineteenth Century.- 8 • Historic Creek Indian Responses to European Trade and the Rise of Political Factions.- 9 • Assessing the Significance of European Goods in Seventeenth-Century Narragansett Society.- IV. Mesoamerica: Encounters with States.- 10 • Socioeconomic Change within Native Society in Colonial Soconusco, New Spain.- 11 • The Living Pay for the Dead: Trade, Exploitation, and Social Change in Early Colonial Izalco, El Salvador.- 12 • Urban and Rural Dimensions of the Contact Period: Central Mexico, 1521–1620.- V. Conclusion.- Afterword.

Editorial Reviews

A dozen papers from a symposium at the 1988 Society for American Archaeology, in Phoenix, explore the impact of the contact between Europeans and Native Americans, using a combination of archaeological, historical, and ethnographic evidence. They consider theoretical orientations, and encounters with villagers and chiefdoms in North America and with states in Mesoamerica. Not a dry record of findings, but a reconstruction of events and contexts that would interest historians and general readers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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