...This chapter focuses on twentieth-century African American writers who contended with the rise of environmental determinism and its implicit authorizing of colonialism and racism. This paradigm exacerbated historical traumas impacting African American relationships with the physical environment...

... that is much more diverse and complicated than generally admitted. The concept of Indio is defined as individuals of indigenous origin but adjusted to life in a colonial environment, and outlines the theoretical framework that forms the basis for this study. This combines precolonial archaeology and history...

... that combines diverse cultural traditions and reflects the needs of a region of intense colonial activity. Evidence of Christianization, the abandonment of indigenous practices, such as cranial modification, and the burial of individuals in clothing point to the appearance of the Indio as an individual adjusted...

...We briefly review the topics that our case studies and note the value of these studies in framing a comparative approach to colonialism in the Asia-Pacific region. Each case study highlights different aspects in the colonial relationship. The chapters have been grouped following a geographical...

...The rise of the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan, the fifth emperor of the Mongol Empire, in thirteenth century China shows a distinctive polity that exemplifies two overlapping forms of colonialism. The first form is settler colonialism, where large (or small) scale migration of people creates...

...Klaus and Alvarez-Calderón begin to assemble the first regional picture of the consequences of contact and colonialism in Peru’s north coast. With multiple lines of evidence from mortuary archaeology and skeletal markers of health and diet, Klaus and Alvarez-Calderón compare previous work...

... and mortuary offerings, there were spatial relationships between involving well-being and proximity (or distance) from the altar. While the study of colonialism in Spanish Florida has a long history, this work at St. Catherines Island represents new directions involving the spatial dimensions of mortuary...

...The growing popularity of comparative colonial studies as a way to study the past and of community-based archaeologies as a way to situate studies of the past in the present brings the need to reflect upon them jointly and carefully. This chapter takes up that challenge by highlighting the origins...

...Key themes of the volume are summarized in this chapter, which addresses the challenge of multiscalar analysis, the balance between structure and agency, and the impact of unresolved colonial legacies on the character, processes, and ethics of archaeological engagements with the public. In addition...

... consistently argued for a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary end to Spanish colonialism. Poyo associated himself with the militarist sector of the Cuban separatist movement that insisted on defeating Spain and rejecting a United States mediated diplomatic solution or purchase preferred by those...

... in the Kromanti tradition. Those interviewed for this book are no longer alive. This chapter suggests that the apparent waning of the Maroons' ancestral religion evidences the same kinds of damaging cultural contradictions, bred by colonialism, that linger on in other parts of Jamaica. Ancestors continuing...

...The introductory chapter argues that the archaeology of colonialism is hindered by scholars’ tendencies to avoid drawing on research that crosses two specific intra-disciplinary divides. The first is the frontier between historic and prehistoric archaeology. The second frontier is between cases...

... of capital, like glass trade beads, muskets, European and Chinese ceramics, copper and iron goods, and glass bottles, were integrated into Chinook economic and political systems is important in the study of colonialism and culture contact. Combined with ethnographic and ethnohistorical data, their use...

...The chapter outlines some key conclusions apparent from the collection of case studies in this edited volume, particularly regarding the highly variable, and sometimes minimal, impact of processes of colonialism on local or indigenous cultures. The argument briefly revisits other chapters...

...Missions have long been recognized as a fundamental aspect of the colonial experience in Spanish Florida. However, missions were the primary mechanism by which Florida became the first European-Indian colonial society in southeastern North America. This pivotal role evolved over time...

...The past three decades have seen important developments in the archaeological study of colonial encounters, yet in North America many approaches still fail to account for Indigenous presence in the centuries after 1492. This wilful unknowing regarding the richness and diversity of postcontact...

...This chapter argues that Latino/a healthcare emerged in U.S. island colonies, where elite physicians constructed medical knowledge about tropical bacteriology, microbiology, disease eradication, sanitation, and quarantine measures. Medical officers returned from these colonies with new ideas...

...Fort Vancouver, located in southwestern Washington (USA), was the administrative headquarters and supply depot for the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) in the Pacific Northwest, essentially its colonial capital between ca. 1825 and 1845. The documentary record for Fort Vancouver suggests a spatial...

...This conclusion chapter arrays the contributions to the volume along a set of integrative themes that places the archaeology of forts and their communities in direct conversation with critical approaches to the archaeology of colonialism. Pezzarossi traces out the plural roles and character...