Archaeologies of the British in Latin America

268 Pages·2019·9.6 MB·English

by  Charles E. Orser Jr.

Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Charles E. Orser Jr. Editor
Archaeologies
of the British
in Latin
America
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Series Editor:
Charles E. Orser Jr.
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
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Charles E. Orser Jr.
Editor
Archaeologies of the British
in Latin America
Editor
Charles E. Orser Jr.
Department of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN, USA
ISSN 1574-0439
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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Contents
1 Archaeological Research and the British in Latin America . . . . . . . . 1
Charles E. Orser Jr.
2 Kaxil Uinic: Archaeology at a San Pedro Maya Village in Belize . . . . 13
Brooke Bonorden and Brett A. Houk
3 Portrait of a Port: The Objects of Industry
in Nineteenth-Century Acajutla, El Salvador (1805–1900) . . . . . . . . . 37
Lauren Alston Bridges and Francisco Roberto Gallardo Mejía
4 The Nineteenth-Century British Ceramics Trade
to Southwestern South America: An Initial Characterization
of the Archaeological Evidence from Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Alasdair Brooks, Simón Urbina, Leonor Adán, Diego Carabias,
Valeria Sepulveda, Horacio Chiavazza, and Valeria Zorrilla
5 R e-Centering the Narrative: British Colonial Memory
and the San Pedro Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Minette C. Church, Jason Yaeger, and Christine A. Kray
6 A n English House in Alexandra Colony, Santa Fe,
Argentina, 1870–1885 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Irene Dosztal
7 F rom the Canopy to the Caye: Two of Britain’s Colonial
Ventures in Nineteenth- Century Belize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Tracie Mayfield and Scott E. Simmons
8 You Don’t Have to Live Like a Refugee: Consumer Culture at
the Nineteenth-Century Refugee Village at Tikal, Guatemala . . . . . . 157
James Meierhoff
9 Landscape of Royalization: A British Military Outpost
on Roatán Island, Honduras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Lorena D. Mihok
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10 Railways: Landmarks and Scars in the Atlantic Rainforest . . . . . . . . 201
Cláudia Regina Plens
11 Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution and Building
Construction Systems: Edward Taylor and His Failed Project
in Argentina, 1852 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Daniel Schavelzon
12 Social and Environmental Impacts of British Colonial
Rum Production at Betty’s Hope Plantation, Antigua . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
E. Christian Wells, Charlotte Goudge, Anthony R. Tricarico,
Reginald Murphy, and Georgia L. Fox
13 The British in Latin America: Material Evidence
of Empire and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Pedro Paulo A. Funari
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Contributors
Leonor Adán Dirección de Vinculación con el Medio, Universidad Austral de
Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Brooke Bonorden SWCA Environmental Consultants, San Antonio, TX, USA
Lauren Alston Bridges Department of Anthropology, The College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Alasdair Brooks British Red Cross, London, UK
Diego Carabias ARQMAR-Centro de Investigaciones en Arqueología Marítima
del Pacífico Sur Oriental, Valparaíso, Chile
Horacio Chiavazza Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Instituto de Arqueología y
Etnología, Municipalidad de Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina
Minette  C.  Church Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Irene  Dosztal Investigaciones Socio-Históricas Regionales (ISHIR), Rosario,
Santa Fe, Argentina
Georgia L. Fox Department of Anthropology, California State University, Chico,
CA, USA
Pedro Paulo A. Funari Department of History, University of Campinas, Campinas,
SP, Brazil
Charlotte Goudge Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of
Bristol, Bristol, UK
Brett A. Houk Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Texas
Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Christine A. Kray Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rochester Institute
of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
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viii Contributors
Tracie  Mayfield Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
James Meierhoff Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago,
Chicago, IL, USA
Francisco Roberto Gallardo Mejía Museo Nacional de Antropología Dr. David
J. Guzmán (MUNA), San Salvador, El Salvador
Lorena  D.  Mihok Comparative Cultures Collegium, Eckerd College, St.
Petersburg, FL, USA
Reginald  Murphy Heritage Resources, National Parks Antigua, St. John’s,
Antigua, West Indies
Charles  E.  Orser Jr. Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, USA
Cláudia  Regina  Plens Department of History, Laboratório de Estudos
Arqueológicos (LEA), Centro de Antropologia e Arqueologia Forense (CAAF),
Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), Guarulhos, SP, Brazil
Daniel  Schavelzon Centro de Arqueología Urbana-Conicet, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Valeria Sepulveda ÀRKA-Arqueología Marítima, Valparaíso, Chile
Scott E. Simmons Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina
Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA
Anthony R. Tricarico Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida,
Tampa, FL, USA
Simón Urbina Dirección Museológica, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia,
Chile
E. Christian Wells Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida,
Tampa, FL, USA
Jason Yaeger Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio,
San Antonio, TX, USA
Valeria Zorrilla Centro de Investigaciones Ruinas de San Francisco, Mendoza,
Argentina
About the Editor
Charles E. Orser Jr. is currently a research professor at Vanderbilt University. He
is an anthropologically trained historical archaeologist who works in post-C olumbian
history, “modern-world archaeology.” His primary research interests lie in social
theory, the archaeological analysis of social inequality and the material conditions
of modernity. His research activities concentrate on the dispossessed and overlooked
in history, and to date he has investigated Native American (American Plains and
Midwest), African (American South and Brazil) and Irish material conditions
(Republic of Ireland). He is the founder and editor of the International Journal of
Historical Archaeology and the author of several books on historical archaeology.
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Chapter 1
Archaeological Research and the British
in Latin America
Charles E. Orser Jr.
1.1 Introduction
Historical archaeologists have made enormous strides investigating Spanish colo-
nialism in the Americas. In North America, for example, such research has eluci-
dated the conditions and meanings of cross-cultural interactions in diverse settings
across the colonial world from California to south Florida. Research at Roman
Catholic mission sites has created significant new understandings about the daily
lives of Natives (both parishioners and resistors) and the newcomers who sought to
convert them (e.g., McEwan 1993; Panich and Schneider 2014). Innovative analy-
ses and insightful perspectives have transformed how archaeologists conceptualize
the roles Native peoples played in a colonial process that archaeologists once per-
ceived as unidirectional and rooted in facile concepts of acculturation (e.g., Quimby
Jr. 1939). The authors of an increasing number of studies have focused upon the role
of Native resistance to European colonialism, analyses that further erode the con-
cept of easy indigenous submission (e.g., Deagan 2010). Other researchers have
demonstrated how the effects of colonial behavior continue to impact the present, a
realization that has led to calls for the decolonization of archaeological research
(e.g., Atalay 2006; Oland et al. 2012).
It should come as no surprise that research on the activities of the Spanish
Empire’s agents in North America and the peoples they encountered is accompanied
by research in Latin America. Historical archaeology has been slower to develop in
Central and South America than in North America for myriad reasons, but new
research throughout the continent is rewriting the ways in which archaeologists
understand the Spanish impact on the indigenous peoples and the Natives’ abilities
and creativity to resist cultural imperialism and create self-definition (e.g., Sauer
C. E. Orser Jr. (*)
Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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