Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism

302 Pages·2016·13.78 MB·English

by  Sandra Montón-Subías

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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Vanderbilt University
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Sandra Montón-Subías • María Cruz Berrocal
Apen Ruiz Martínez
Editors
Archaeologies of Early
Modern Spanish Colonialism
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Editors
Sandra Montón-Subías Apen Ruiz Martínez
Department of Humanities Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Barcelona Spain
Spain
María Cruz Berrocal
Zukunftskolleg
University of Konstanz
Konstanz
Germany
ISSN 1574-0439
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
ISBN 978-3-319-21884-7 ISBN 978-3-319-21885-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21885-4
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Acknowledgements
Our most heartfelt thanks to all the contributors in this volume for their dedicated
effort and collaboration through all the phases of the manuscript. Most of them were
also present in the workshop that, with the same title, was celebrated in Barcelona in
June 2013, which is the basis for the present book. Many thanks, as well, to Sandra
Lozano and Cinta Campos (Institut Universitari dʼHistòria Jaume Vicens Vives) for
their invaluable help with the logistics of this workshop.
Alex Coello, Manel Ollé, Joan Pau Rubiés, and Lluis Abejez helped discussing
questions related to the history of the period. Our most sincere thanks to the four
of them.
This book was partly made possible by support from the Spanish Ministry of
Economy and Competitivity (Ref. HAR2012–31927) and the Catalan Agency for
Research and Development (AGAUR, MIDARC-SGR 835).
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Contents
1 T owards a Comparative Approach to Archaeologies of Early
Modern Spanish Colonialism .................................................................. 1
Sandra Montón-Subías, María Cruz Berrocal and Apen Ruiz
Part I A rchaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism
in the Americas
2 Displacing Dominant Meanings in the Archaeology of Urban
Policies and Emergence of Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia) ................... 11
Monika Therrien
3 T he Material Worlds of Colonizers in New Spain ................................ 39
Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría
4 Historical Archaeology and the Politics
of Empowerment in Venezuela ............................................................... 61
Kay Tarble de Scaramelli
5 T houghts on Early Spanish Colonialism Through Two
American Case Studies: Basque Fisheries (Canada) and
Sancti Spiritus Settlement (Argentina) .................................................. 93
Agustín Azkarate, Sergio Escribano-Ruiz, Iban Sánchez-Pinto
and Verónica Benedet
Part II A rchaeologies of Early Modern Spanish
Colonialism in Africa
6 T he Archaeology of the Early Castilian Colonialism
in Atlantic Africa. The Canary Islands and
Western Barbary (1478–1526) ................................................................ 119
Jorge Onrubia Pintado and María del Cristo González Marrero
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7 T he Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1557–1632) and the Origins
of Gondärine Architecture (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Centuries) ........ 153
Victor M. Fernández
8 Colonial Encounters in Spanish Equatorial Africa
(Eighteenth–Twentieth Centuries).......................................................... 175
Alfredo González-Ruibal, Llorenç Picornell Gelabert
and Manuel Sánchez-Elipe
Part III Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish
Colonialism in the Pacific
9 Beginning Historical Archaeology in Vanuatu: Recent
Projects on the Archaeology of Spanish, French, and
Anglophone Colonialism ......................................................................... 205
James Flexner, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Bedford and Marcelin Abong
10 Spanish Colonial History and Archaeology in the Mariana
Islands: Echoes from the Western Pacific .............................................. 229
James M. Bayman and John A. Peterson
11 The Failed Sixteenth Century Spanish Colonizing
Expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Southwest Pacific: The
Archaeologies of Settlement Process and Indigenous Agency .............. 253
Martin Gibbs
12 Ilha Formosa, Seventeenth Century: Archaeology in Small
Islands, History of Global Processes ...................................................... 281
María Cruz Berrocal
About the Editors
María Cruz Berrocal is a Research Fellow in the Zukunftskolleg, University of
Konstanz. She received a B.A. in History and Geography (1996) and a Ph.D in Pre-
history and Archaeology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2004). She
has worked at the High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC, Spain) the Univer-
sity of California Berkeley, and at the National Taiwan Normal University and Aca-
demia Sinica (Taiwan). Her research interests include Prehistoric Rock Art, Iberian
Prehistory, Historical Archaeology, Theoretical Archaeology, and Pacific Archaeol-
ogy. She has done research in the Pacific (mainly in Fiji and Taiwan) since 2007,
and her recent publications include papers in Asian Perspectives and Archaeology
in Oceania, among others.
Sandra Montón-Subías is an ICREA research professor at Universitat Pompeu
Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). She received a B.A. in geography and history from the
Universitat de Barcelona (1988) and a Ph.D. in history from the Universitat Autòno-
ma de Barcelona (1993). Since then, she has been working and conducting research
stays at the University of Athens, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Re-
search, the University of Cambridge, the University of California Santa Cruz, the
Northwestern University, and the National Taiwan University. Sandra’s publica-
tions include The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia: Argaric Societies (Routledge
2014) and ¿Qué es esa cosa llamada arqueología histórica? ( Complutum 2015).
Apen Ruíz Martínez studied history at the University Autonoma de Barcelona
and received her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin.
During her doctorate research she examined the relations among anthropology,
gender, and nationalism in Mexico; she has published several articles on this top-
ic. Apen teaches at various institutions, courses on culture, identity, and language
in Hispanic societies; anthropology and qualitative research methodologies at the
MSc. International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the
International University of Catalunya. She is currently a member of a European-
funded project that focuses on the relations between heritage values and the public
(http://heritagevalues.net/).
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Contributors
Marcelin Abong Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Port-Vila, Vanuatu
Agustín Azkarate UNESCO Chair on Cultural Landscape and Heritage. Grupo
de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido, GPAC. Departamento de Geografía,
Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-
Gasteiz, Araba, Spain
James M. Bayman University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa, Honolulu, USA
Stuart Bedford School of Culture, History and Languages, Australian National
University/Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Canberra, Australia
Verónica Benedet Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido, GPAC.
Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco
(UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain
María Cruz Berrocal Zukunftskolleg, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Sergio Escribano-Ruiz Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido,
GPAC. Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del
País Vasco (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain
Victor M. Fernández Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
James Flexner School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National
University, Canberra, Australia
Martin Gibbs Department of Archaeology, University of New England,
Armidale, Australia
María del Cristo González Marrero Grupo de Investigación Tarha, Universidad
de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
Alfredo González-Ruibal Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit), Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Sandra Montón-Subías Departament d’Humanitats, ICREA/Universitat Pom-
peu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Jorge Onrubia Pintado Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain
John A. Peterson University of Guam, Mangilao, USA
Llorenç Picornell Gelabert Grupo de Investigación ArqueoUIB, Universitat de
les Illes Balears, Palma, Spain
Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría Department of Anthropology, University of Texas,
Austin, USA
Apen Ruiz Universitat Oberta de Catalunya-Universitat Internacional de
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Manuel Sánchez-Elipe Departamento de Prehistoria, Universidad Complutense,
Madrid, Spain
Iban Sánchez-Pinto Grupo de Investigación en Patrimonio Construido, GPAC.
Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad del País Vasco
(UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Araba, Spain
Matthew Spriggs School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National
University/Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta, Canberra, Australia
Kay Tarble de Scaramelli Departamento de Arqueología y Antropología
Histórica, Escuela de Antropología, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas,
Venezuela
Monika Therrien Fundación Erigaie, Bogotá, Colombia