Index. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 5. Studying empire, genealogically -- 2. The development of reduccion -- 3. Environment, settlement, and indigenous political subjectivity in Zana before the reduccion general -- 4. How reduccion worked: indigenous resettlement and regional transformation in the Zana Valley during the late sixteenth Century -- 5. After-affects: the transformation and persistence of indigenous communities and reduccion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Conclusion -- Appendix: methodolical essay -- Archival abbreviations -- Notes-- References -- Index.
Summary:
"Alluvium and Empire examines the archaeology of Indigenous communities and landscapes that were subject to Spanish colonial forced resettlement during the sixteenth century. Written at the intersections of history and archaeology, the book critiques previous approaches to the study of empire and models a genealogical approach that attends to the open-ended-and often unpredictable-ways in which empires take shape."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Archaeology of indigenous-colonial interactions in the Americas
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