Archaeology of Early Colonial Interaction at El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba / Roberto Valcárcel Rojas ; foreword by William F. Keegan.

Author/creator Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, 1968-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoGainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Descriptionxx, 398 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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SeriesFlorida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Contents Introduction -- From contact to the colonial situation -- Cuba: the Spanish colonization -- El Chorro de Maíta: a first look -- Recognizing the living space -- The cemetery: death and human diversity -- Mortuary practices in a colonial environment -- An Indian town in times of the encomienda -- Summary and conclusions.
Abstract This work enables scholars to examine how the encomienda labor draft worked in the hinterlands, without the everyday presence of Spanish overlords or priests. It allows not only the first opportunity to bring the key research at El Chorro to the attention of the international scholarly community, adding a new dimension to our understanding of the encomienda system, but also to reveal the earliest moments of the hybrid Cuban culture that persists today.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 359-387) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015030170
ISBN9780813061566

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