TY - JOUR
T1 - Bureaucratic reforms on the frontier
T2 - Zooarchaeological and historical perspectives on the 1767 Jesuit Expulsion in the Pimería Alta
AU - Mathwich, Nicole
AU - Pavao-Zuckerman, Barnet
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona School of Anthropology, Tohono O'odham Historic Preservation Office, and Tumac?cori National Historic Park, and J. Homer Thiel and the staff at Desert, Inc. for all their work and help in the study of these sites. We are grateful to the ?Empires and Environment? session organizers Melissa Rosenzweig and John Marston, whose organization of this issue and comments greatly enhanced the argument presented here. We also acknowledge the many University of Arizona students and Stanley J. Olsen Laboratory of Zooarchaeology volunteers who participated in research at Mission San Agust?n, Mission Coc?spera, and Mission Guevavi.
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© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - Spanish colonialism in the Americas went through major periods of change as imperial goals shifted in response to European politics. The 1767 Jesuit Expulsion represents one widespread colonial reform where an entire religious administration was replaced within a year. The expulsion and subsequent economic reforms altered the relationships between indigenous people in Jesuit mission communities and surrounding colonial settlements. Archaeological data offer a new perspective on the impacts of this global transition at the local level in the northern Pimería Alta, encompassing what is now Arizona and Sonora. We use zooarchaeological and historical evidence to evaluate the resilience of colonial settlements following the expulsion and review its effects on indigenous O'odham groups living at these sites. The proportions of animal use at colonial settlements remained consistent before and after the expulsion. The scale of ranching activities, however, intensified under Franciscan direction in the decades following the expulsion. Local dynamics, including population loss and raiding violence, shaped settlement dynamics more than imperial policy. We separate settlement resilience from O'odham persistence under Spanish colonialism and assess the value and limits of resilience in relation to indigenous experiences at interdependent colonial settlements. Distinguishing indigenous persistence from systemic resilience adds nuance to the use of resilience within colonial archaeology scholarship.
AB - Spanish colonialism in the Americas went through major periods of change as imperial goals shifted in response to European politics. The 1767 Jesuit Expulsion represents one widespread colonial reform where an entire religious administration was replaced within a year. The expulsion and subsequent economic reforms altered the relationships between indigenous people in Jesuit mission communities and surrounding colonial settlements. Archaeological data offer a new perspective on the impacts of this global transition at the local level in the northern Pimería Alta, encompassing what is now Arizona and Sonora. We use zooarchaeological and historical evidence to evaluate the resilience of colonial settlements following the expulsion and review its effects on indigenous O'odham groups living at these sites. The proportions of animal use at colonial settlements remained consistent before and after the expulsion. The scale of ranching activities, however, intensified under Franciscan direction in the decades following the expulsion. Local dynamics, including population loss and raiding violence, shaped settlement dynamics more than imperial policy. We separate settlement resilience from O'odham persistence under Spanish colonialism and assess the value and limits of resilience in relation to indigenous experiences at interdependent colonial settlements. Distinguishing indigenous persistence from systemic resilience adds nuance to the use of resilience within colonial archaeology scholarship.
KW - Indigenous persistence
KW - Jesuit Expulsion
KW - Resilience
KW - Spanish colonialism
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.07.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85051365507
SN - 0278-4165
VL - 52
SP - 156
EP - 166
JO - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
JF - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
ER -