BOOK REVIEWSEdited by Patrick Livingood
| Autor: | Timothy G. Baugh, Kevin Kiernan, Amanda Pesce |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Southeastern Archaeology. 34:164-168 |
| ISSN: | 2168-4723 0734-578X |
| DOI: | 10.1179/0734578x15z.00000000015 |
| Popis: | NATIVE AND SPANISH NEW WORLDS: SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENTRADAS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST, Clay Mathers, Jeffrey M. Mitchem and Charles M. Haecker. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2013, 382 pp., app., notes. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8165-3020-5; $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8165-3122-6In the "Editors' Preface," Clay Mathers and Jeffrey Mitchem explain that this volume owes its genesis to a variety of venues, including the Albuquerque meetings of the Society for Historical Archaeology in 2009; the Atlanta meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, in 2009; and a weeklong seminar at the Amerind Foundation, also in 2009. The editors organized the volume to cut across the artificial geographical barriers established by our discipline, but not by the indigenous people of North America. As a result, this book provides meaningful insight into the peoples of two culture areas within the southern United States.The first chapter, "Entradas in Context," is an overview by Mathers and Mitchem. This is followed by eight sections in this volume and (with the exception of the first and fifth sections) all have paired chapters. The six sections include: Native Perspectives, Historiography, Climate, Disease, Conflict, and the concluding Discussion.The first section, entitled "Native Perspectives," provides only one view that of being Zuni in western New Mexico. This southwestern perception starts off a little slow, but less than half-way through the chapter, I was thoroughly engaged by the writing of Kurt Dongoske and Cindy Dongoske, who note that Vasquez de Coronado arrived at Zuni during an important religious ceremony. The "Knight of Spain" was insulted by the lack of attention he felt he was owed, and the Spaniards did not attempt to understand the concerns of the Zuni people. As a result, conflict erupted in which a number of Indigenous warriors died. This section was well worth reading but unfortunately, there is no Southeastern perspective on first encounters.Section II provides a "Historiography" using two chapters. The first is on the Vasquez de Coronado expedition in "Catch as Catch Can" (Richard Flint and Shirley Flint). The chapter provides valuable information for understanding the background of an entrada, including its composition, needed skills, multiplicity of cultures, as well as the men and women who composed such an impetuous band. Such information establishes a baseline for understanding the interactions between the entradas and their reluctant hosts. The second chapter, entitled "Contact Era Studies and the Southeastern Indian" by Robbie Ethridge, discusses the development of ethnohistory, the relation between history and anthropology, and the need for a synthesis of Indigenous culture and historySection ID deals with "Climatic Influences and Impacts" by examining our current knowledge of the environment in the Southwest and its impact on Hispanic and Indigenous interactions in the Middle Rio Grande basin (Carla Van West, Thomas Windes, Frances Levine, Henri GrissinoMayer, and Matthew Salzer). This approach offers a fresh perspective on the religious conflict between two cultures during a major drought culminating in the "hanging of Pueblo leaders in 1675" C. E. (p. 98). Dennis Blanton examines La Florida in the sixteenth century. He notes cultural responses to drought differ between societies based upon their cultural complexity and knowledge of the environment. In other words, Indigenous societies experienced less drastic stress than members of the colonial European occupation-a finding supported by archaeological disaster studies in general.Section IV examines the impact of introduced diseases. Both the Southwest chapter (Ann Ramenofsky and Jeremy Kulisheck) and the Southeast chapter (Dale Hutchinson) conclude that the impact of infectious microbes is less than once believed by scholars. Ramenofsky and Kulisheck state "warfare, exploitation, and disease were the common variables that shaped the colonial encounter, understanding how these variables operated singly or in combination must be investigated on a case-by-case basis" (p. … |
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