Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America [electronic resource] / edited by Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Maria Ximena Senatore.

Foreword 1: Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Foreword 2: Neil Silberman -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Disrupting the grand narrative of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism Maria Ximena Senatore and Pedro P. A. Funari -- Section I: Posing questions in cultural contact and colonialism.- Chapter 2: The Atlantic expansion and the Portuguese material culture in the Early Modern Age: an archaeological approach André Teixeira, Joana Bento Torres and José Bettencourt -- Chapter 3: The early colonisation of the Rio de la Plata basin and the settlement of Sancti Spiritus,  Agustin Azkarate and Sergio Escribano Ruiz -- Chapter 4: Technological transformations: adaptationist, relativist, and economic models in Mexico and Venezuela Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría, Ana María Navas Méndez and Franz Scaramelli -- Chapter 5: Tribute, Antimarkets and Consumption: An Archaeology of Capitalist Effects in Colonial Guatemala Guido Pezzarossi -- Chapter 6: Ek Chuah encounters the holy ghost in the colonial labyrinth:  ideology and commerce on both sides of the Spanish invasion Susan Kepecs -- Chapter 7: Archaeology of contact in Cuba, a reassessment Lourdes Domínguez and Pedro Paulo A. Funari -- Section II: Local histories: diversity, creativity and novelty -- Chapter 8: Dress, faith, and medicine: Caring for the body in 18th-century Spanish Texas Diana DiPaolo Loren -- Chapter 9: Uncommon Commodities: Articulating the Global and the Local on the Orinoco Frontier Franz Scaramelli and Kay Scaramelli -- Chapter 10: Women in Spanish Colonial Contexts Nan A. Rothschild.-Chapter 11: Material culture, mestizage, and social segmentation in Santarém, northern Brazil Luís Cláudio Pereira Symanski  and Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes.-Chapter 12: Modernity at the edges of the Spanish Enlightenment. Novelty and material culture in Floridablanca Colony (Patagonia, 18th century) Maria Ximena Senatore -- Section III: New realities and material worlds -- Chapter 13: Basque fisheries in Eastern Canada, a special case of cultural encounter in the colonizing of North America Sergio Escribano-Ruiz and Agustín Azkarate -- Chapter 14: The Spanish occupation of the Central Lowlands of South America: Santa Cruz de la Sierra la Vieja Horacio Chiavazza -- Chapter 15: Nautical landscapes in the 16th century: an archaeological approach to the coast of São Paulo (Brazil) Paulo Fernando Bava de Camargo -- Chapter 16: Fort San José, a Remote Spanish Outpost in Northwest Florida, 1700-1721 Julie Rogers Saccente and Nancy Marie White -- Chapter 17: Striking it Rich in the Americas' First Boom Town:  Economic Activity at Concepción de la Vega (Hispaniola) 1495-1564 Pauline Kulstad -- Chapter 18: Brazil Baroque, Baroque mestizo: heritage, archaeology, modernism and the "Estado Novo" in the Brazilian context Rita Juliana Soares Poloni -- Final Comments -- Chapter 19: Narratives of Colonialism, Grand and Not-So-Grand: A Critical Reflection on the Archaeology of the Spanish and Portuguese Americas Barbara L. Voss.      .