IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Introduction: Disrupting the grand narrative of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism
Autor/es:
SENATORE, MARIA XIMENA; FUNARI, PEDRO PAULO A.
Libro:
Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Lugar: New York; Año: 2014; p. 1 - 19
Resumen:
The volume contributes to disrupt the old grand narrative of cultural
contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America in a
wide and complete sense. This edited volume aims at exploring
contact archaeology in the modern era. Archaeology has been
exploring the interaction of peoples and cultures from early times, but
only in the last few decades have cultural contact and material world
been recognized as crucial elements to understanding colonialism
and the emergence of modernity. Modern colonialism studies pose
questions in need of broader answers. This volume explores these
answers in Spanish and Portuguese America, comprising present day
Latin America and formerly Spanish territories now part of the
United States. Cultural contact studies offer a particularly in-depth
picture of the uniqueness of Latin America in terms of its cultural
mixture. This volume particularly highlights local histories, revealing
novelty, diversity, and creativity in the conformation of the new
colonial realities, as well as presenting Latin America as a
multicultural arena, with astonishing heterogeneity in thoughts,
experiences, practices, and, material worlds.