| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 284 pages) |
| Contents |
Technology and tradition after the Spanish invasion: an introduction / Rani T. Alexander -- Obsidian production and use in Central Mexico after the Spanish invasion / Alejandro Pastrana Cruz, Patricia Fournier García, William J. Parry, and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton -- Postconquest technological innovation and effect on ceramic traditions in Central Mexico / Patricia Fournier García and Cynthia L. Otis Charlton -- Ceramic technology in Afromestizo neighborhoods of the colonial port of Veracruz, Mexico / Krista L. Eschbach -- New materials, new technologies? Postclassic and early colonial technological transitions in the Nejapa region of Oaxaca, Mexico / Stacie M. King and Elizabeth Konwest -- Technology and forest transitions in the Soconusco region of Chiapas, Mexico / Mario A. Castillo and Janine Gasco -- Norias, cenotes, and rejolladas: changes in Yucatán's hydrogeologic landscape after the Spanish invasion / Rani T. Alexander and Nina Williams -- Technological change of henequen decorticating machines during Yucatán's gilded age / Héctor Hernández Álvarez -- Cane and consumerism: nineteenth-century sugar growing at Lamanai, Belize / Tracie Mayfield, Elizabeth Graham, and David Pendergast -- An archaeology of indigo: changes in labor and technology in the Izalcos region of Western El Salvador / Kathryn E. Sampeck -- Technological and cultural change during the conquest period at Ciudad Vieja, El Salvador / Jeb J. Card and William R. Fowler Jr -- European technology and native traditions in Mesoamerican history: a commentary / Anthony P. Andrews |
| Summary |
"This impressive collection features the work of archaeologists who systematically explore the material and social consequences of new technological systems introduced after the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion in Mesoamerica. It is the first collection to present case studies that show how both commonplace and capital-intensive technologies were intertwined with indigenous knowledge systems to reshape local, regional, and transoceanic ecologies, commodity chains, and political, social, and religious institutions across Mexico and Central America"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 19, 2019) |
| Subject |
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
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Indians of Central America -- Antiquities.
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Technology and civilization -- History
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Diffusion of innovations -- Latin America -- History
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Material culture -- Latin America -- History
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Social change -- Latin America -- History
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- Mexico.
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Antiquities
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Civilization -- Spanish influences
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Diffusion of innovations
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Indians of Central America -- Antiquities
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Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities
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Material culture
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Social change
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Technology and civilization
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| SUBJECT |
Mexico -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084538
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Central America -- Antiquities
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Latin America -- Civilization -- Spanish influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88006192
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| Subject |
Central America
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Latin America
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Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alexander, Rani T., 1962- editor.
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| LC no. |
2018049732 |
| ISBN |
0826360165 |
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9780826360168 |
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