| Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba Contributor(s): Rojas, Roberto Valcárcel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813061563 ISBN-13: 9780813061566 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $84.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General |
| Dewey: 972.916 |
| LCCN: 2015030170 |
| Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.82 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "This book, a true milestone in the archaeology of the Greater Antilles, presents a bold new synthesis and interpretation of El Chorro de Ma ta, a native Cuban Indian town caught up in the political and economic domination of the early colonial world."--Vernon James Knight Jr., author of Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory "Provides a deeper and well-documented understanding of the role of the aboriginal 'Indo-Cubans' in an early colonial context that stimulated the development of a Cuban national identity."--Jos R. Oliver, author of Caciques and Cem Idols During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous people became "Indios," their language, appearance, and identity transformed by the domination imposed by a foreign model that Christianized and "civilized" them. Yet El Chorro de Ma ta retained many of its indigenous characteristics. In this volume--one of the first in English to examine and document an archaeological site in Cuba--Roberto Valc rcel Rojas analyzes the construction of colonial authority and the various attitudes and responses of natives and other ethnic groups. His pioneering study reveals the process of transculturation in which new individuals emerged--Indians, mestizos, criollos--and helps construct the vital link between the pre-Columbian world and the development of an integrated and new history. |