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1 online resource |
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The archaeology of indigenous-colonial interactions in the Americas |
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Archaeology of indigenous-colonial interactions in the Americas.
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Cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Community Formation and Integration in Colonial Contexts / Kathleen L. Hull and John G. Douglass; Part I. Religious Beliefs and Practices; 1. The Creation of Community in the Colonial Era Los Angeles Basin / John G. Douglass, Kathleen L. Hull, and Seetha N. Reddy; 2. "A Mourning Dirge Was Sung": Community and Remembrance at Mission San Gabriel / John Dietler, Heather Gibson, and Benjamin Vargas |
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3. Making and Unmaking Native Communities in Mission and Post-Mission Era Marin County, California / Tsim D. SchneiderPart II. Economic or Political Ties; 4. Contingent Communities in a Region of Refuge / Julienne Bernard and David W. Robinson; 5. Mission Recruitment and Community Transformations: An Ethnohistorical Study of the Cuyama Chumash / John R. Johnson; 6. Marriage and Death in the Neophyte Village at Mission Santa Clara: Preservation of Ancestral and Elite Communities / Sarah Pello, Lee M. Panich, CHristina Spellman, John Ellison, and Stella D'Oro |
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Part III. Quotidian Practice in Shared Space7. Archaeological Insights into the Persistence of Multiscalar Native Communities at Mission Santa Clara de Asís / Lee M. Panich, Sarah Peelo, and Linda Hylkema; 8. Communities of Persistence: The Study of Colonial Neighborhoods in the Fort Ross Region of Northern California / Kent G. Lightfoot; 9. The Diverse Community of the Pueblo of San Diego in the Mexican Period in California, 1821-1846 / Glenn Farris; Epilogue. Proximal Mirrors: Colonial California and Colonial New Mexico; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
Between 1769 and 1834, an influx of Spanish, Russian, and then American colonists streamed into Alta California seeking new opportunities. Their arrival brought the imposition of foreign beliefs, practices, and constraints on Indigenous peoples. Forging Communities in Colonial Alta California reorients understandings of this dynamic period, which challenged both Native and non-Native people to reimagine communities not only in different places and spaces but also in novel forms and practices. The contributors draw on archaeological and historical archival sources to analyze the generative processes and nature of communities of belonging in the face of rapid demographic change and perceived or enforced difference. Contributors provide important historical background on the effects that colonialism, missions, and lives lived beyond mission walls had on Indigenous settlement, marriage patterns, trade, and interactions. They also show the agency with which Indigenous peoples make their own decisions as they construct and reconstruct their communities. With nine different case studies and an insightful epilogue, this book offers analyses that can be applied broadly across the Americas, deepening our understanding of colonialism and community |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2018) |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Colonization -- California
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Communities -- California -- History
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- California
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Communities
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Indians of North America -- Colonization
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples
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California
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hull, Kathleen L. (Kathleen Louann), 1959- editor.
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Douglass, John G., 1968- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780816538928 |
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0816538921 |
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