The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism

The method used in The Global Spanish Empire, which is part of the current trend in theories of materiality, constitutes a useful contribution to colonial studies from an anthropological view. Besides examining new cases of specific settings in disparate geographical points, each chapter extracts ge...

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Published in:Chiricú 2021, Vol.5 (2), p.272-274
Main Author: Escolano, Damián V. Solano
Format: Review
Language:English
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Colonialism
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Summary:The method used in The Global Spanish Empire, which is part of the current trend in theories of materiality, constitutes a useful contribution to colonial studies from an anthropological view. Besides examining new cases of specific settings in disparate geographical points, each chapter extracts general principles related to these theoretical foci. Chapter 8 (Stephen Acabado and Grace BarrettoTesoro) contrasts two opposite cases of reaction to the Spanish conquest: the highlanders of Ifugao, who developed a system of terraced rice cultivation as a form of survival, and the multiethnic lowland Tagalog society, which displayed different strategies of assimilation and negotiation. [...]chapter 11 (Juliet Wiersema) looks at the African descendent populations along the Dagua River, Nueva Granada, a corridor between highly strategic cities such as Cali and Buenaventura (now Colombia).
ISSN:0277-7223
2472-4521