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At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America. While people of African descent have formed part of most borderlands histories, this study recognizes and explains their critical contribution to the formation of frontier spaces. Lack of imperial control coupled with Spain's desperation for settlers and soldiers in frontier areas facilitated the social mobility of Afro-descendants. This need allowed African descendants to become not just members of borderland societies but leaders of it as well. They were essential actors in helping to shape the limits of the Spanish empire. Africans and Afro-descendants built, opposed, and shaped Spanish hegemony in the borderlands, taking on roles that would have been impossible or difficult in colonial centers due to the socio-racial hierarchy of imperial policies and practices.
Perhaps the contributions of South American archaeology to the larger field of world archaeology have been inadequately recognized. If so, this is probably because there have been relatively few archaeologists working in South America outside of Peru and recent advances in knowledge in other parts of the continent are only beginning to enter larger archaeological discourse. Many ideas of and about South American archaeology held by scholars from outside the area are going to change irrevocably with the appearance of the present volume. Not only does the Handbook of South American Archaeology (HSAA) provide immense and broad information about ancient South America, the volume also showcases t...
Ancient South America, 2nd edition is completely revised and updated to reflect archaeological discoveries and insights made in the past three decades. It features the full panorama of the South American past from the first inhabitants to the European invasions.
Based on the 28th International Archaeometry Symposium jointly sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Getty Conservation Institute, this volume offers a rare opportunity to survey under a single cover a wide range of investigations concerning pre-Columbian materials. Twenty chapters detail research in five principal areas: anthropology and materials science; ceramics; stone and obsidian; metals; and archaeological sites and dating. Contributions include Heather Lechtman's investigation of “The Materials Science of Material Culture,” Ron L. Bishop on the compositional analysis of pre-Columbian pottery from the Maya region, Ellen Howe on the use of silver and lead from the Mantaro Valley in Peru, and J. Michael Elam and others on source identification and hydration dating of obsidian artifacts.
This study aims to collect and systematise the existing general knowledge about pre-Hispanic metallurgy of Ecuador and the specific data concerning the collection of the Banco Central. The result is the most comprehensive book on Ecuadorian metallurgy to date.
Este libro analiza la presencia de los africanos esclavizados en el departamento del Cauca, Colombia. El cruce de las fuentes bibliográficas provenientes de archivos históricos, bibliografía especializada, datos propios de la investigación arqueológica y entrevistas con pobladores de las zonas estudiadas es el principal aporte del texto a la Arqueología Histórica. Este cruce de fuentes y su análisis es importante para el estado del arte de las ciencias sociales en general sobre el tema de la presencia de los africanos esclavizados en Latinoamérica, Colombia y, sobre todo, en el Cauca, aportando al estudio del pasado de la presencia africana en el país en el contexto actual de las c...
Este libro recoge varios textos que describen distintos aspectos de la música de la región Pacífica colombiana y su influencia en la cultura de la zona, así como la historia de narcotráfico y conflicto que subsiste allí También analizan la forma como se generaron ritmos y prácticas a partir de la mezcla entre la herencia africana y los ritmos e instrumentos del interior del país
Esta obra muestra la diversidad del país: sus gentes, su historia, su patrimonio y su territorio, a través de un recorrido por las ocho regiones culturales del país. Así, aquellos que se decidan a recorrer sus páginas encontrarán un breve análisis histórico desde los tiempos prehispánicos hasta la actualidad; se recrearán en los relatos de las fiestas, las conmemoraciones y las costumbres que han delineado nuestra identidad; trasegarán por el territorio, su ordenamiento y sus disputas, y conocerán a las gentes y las comunidades con las cuales compartimos este espacio que llamamos Colombia. Este libro ofrece también una investigación gráfica, en la que se pueden reconocer ríos...
Ponencias presentadas en el Coloquio Internacional Agricultura Prehispánica, donde se estudia los sistemas agrícolas tradicionales en los Andes, los cuales desarrollaron estrategias tecnológicas adaptativas para usufructuar mejor los recursos naturales.