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Indo-Hispanic Dynamics: From Contact to Colonial Interaction in the Greater Antilles

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Indo-Hispanic interaction is an essential issue in the colonial period in the Caribbean, but its study is currently marginalized as an offshoot of pre-Columbian archaeology. This state of affairs denies the indigenous contribution to the past and present ethnocultural composition of the region and privileges a colonial approach in scholarship. This paper reviews important aspects of the history of archaeological research on contact and colonial interaction in the Greater Antilles and its theoretical underpinnings. It also presents two recent archaeological case studies that show different facets of the interaction processes using new methodological approaches: El Cabo, Dominican Republic, with evidence of early contact, and El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba, a context of interethnic interaction under colonial conditions.

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The initial version of this text, presented during the seminar History of Anthropological and Historical Research in the Columbian Caribbean, organized by the Bank of the Republic of Colombia in Cartagena, was prepared thanks to the interest of Juanita Saens Samper and Lucy Gómez Vergara. Lisette Roura’s comments and conversations with Roger Arrazcaeta, Kathleen Deagan, Gifford J. Watters, Osvaldo Jiménez, Vernon J. Knight, and Brooke Persons have been useful in preparing the article. We thank two anonymous reviewers for their comments which improved this paper. Investigation in El Cabo was carried out under the project Houses for the Living and the Dead, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO 360-62-030) and aspects of the investigation in El Chorro de Maíta are funded by NWO grant project Communicating Communities (NWO 277-62-001) awarded to PI Corinne Hofman, Caribbean Research Group, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

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    Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, Alice V. M. Samson & Menno L. P. Hoogland

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Valcárcel Rojas, R., Samson, A.V.M. & Hoogland, M.L.P. Indo-Hispanic Dynamics: From Contact to Colonial Interaction in the Greater Antilles. Int J Histor Archaeol 17, 18–39 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-012-0208-8

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