Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America

Chapter 1 Introduction: Disrupting the Grand Narrative of Spanish and Portuguese Colonialism

Chapter 2 The Atlantic Expansion and the Portuguese Material Culture in the Early Modern Age: An Archaeological Approach

Chapter 3 The Early Colonisation of the Rio de la Plata Basin and the Settlement of Sancti Spiritus

Chapter 5 Tribute, Antimarkets, and Consumption: An Archaeology of Capitalist Effects in Colonial Guatemala

Chapter 6 Ek Chuah Encounters the Holy Ghost in the Colonial Labyrinth: Ideology and Commerce on Both Sides of the Spanish Invasion

Chapter 7 Archaeology of Contact in Cuba, a Reassessment

Chapter 8 Dress, Faith, and Medicine: Caring for the Body in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Texas

Chapter 9 Uncommon Commodities: Articulating the Global and the Local on the Orinoco Frontier

Chapter 10 Women in Spanish Colonial Contexts

Chapter 11 Material Culture, Mestizage, and Social Segmentation in Santarém, Northern Brazil

Chapter 12 Modernity at the Edges of the Spanish Enlightenment. Novelty and Material Culture in Floridablanca Colony (Patagonia, Eighteenth Century)

Chapter 13 Basque Fisheries in Eastern Canada, a Special Case of Cultural Encounter in the Colonizing of North America

Chapter 14 The Spanish Occupation of the Central Lowlands of South America: Santa Cruz de la Sierra la Vieja

Chapter 15 Nautical Landscapes in the Sixteenth Century: An Archaeological Approach to the Coast of São Paulo (Brazil)

Chapter 16 Fort San José, a Remote Spanish Outpost in Northwest Florida, 1700–1721

Chapter 17 Striking It Rich in the Americas’ First Boom Town: Economic Activity at Concepción de la Vega (Hispaniola) 1495–1564

Chapter 18 Brazil Baroque, Baroque Mestizo: Heritage, Archeology, Modernism and the Estado Novo in the Brazilian Context

Chapter 19 Narratives of Colonialism, Grand and Not So Grand: A Critical Reflection on the Archaeology of the Spanish and Portuguese Americas