Studies in Culture Contact

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Preface

1. Introduction
James G. Cusick

I. Perspectives on the Study of Culture Contact in Archaeology: Concepts and Critiques

2. Transculturation and Spanish American Ethnogenesis: The Archaeological Legacy of the Quincentenary
Kathleen Deagan

3. Contexts of Contact and Change: Peripheries, Frontiers, and Boundaries
Prudence M. Rice

4. Culture Contact in Evolutionary Perspective
Robert L. Schuyler

5. Evolutionary Theory and the Native American Record of Artifact Replacement
Ann F. Ramenofsky
 
6. Culture Contact Structure and Process
Edward M. Schortman and Patricia A. Urban

7. Historiography of Acculturation: An Evaluation of Concepts and Their Application in Archaeology
James G. Cusick

8. Violent Encounters: Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in Long-Term Contact Situations
Jonathan D. Hill

9. Cultural Interaction and African American Identity in Plantation Archaeology
Theresa A. Singleton

II. Archaeological Case Studies in Culture Contact

10. 30,000 Years of Culture Contact in the Southwest Pacific
John Edward Terrell

11. World System Theory and Alternative Modes of Interaction in the Archaeology of Culture Contact
Gil J. Stein

12. Nubia and Egypt: Interaction, Acculturation, and Secondary State Formation from the Third to First Millennium B.C.
Stuart Tyson Smith

13. Consumption, Agency, and Cultural Entanglement: Theoretical Implications of a Mediterranean Colonial Encounter
Michael Dietler

14. Culture Contact, Identity, and Change in the European Provinces of the Roman Empire
Peter S. Wells

15. Toltec Invaders and Spanish Conquistadors: Culture Contact in the Postclassic Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Susan Toby Evans

16. Culture Contact and Change in West Africa
Christopher R. DeCorse

17. Cultural Transformation Within Enslaved Laborer Communities in the Caribbean
Douglas V. Armstrong

18. Forced Relocation, Power Relations, and Culture Contact in the Missions of La Florida
Rebecca Saunders

19. Some Think It Impossible to Civilize Them at All: Cultural Change and Continuity Among the Early Nineteenth-Century Potawatomi
Mark J. Wagner

20. Lacandón Maya Culture Change and Survival in the Lowland Frontier of the Expanding Guatemalan and Mexican Republics
Joel W. Palka

21. Afterword: Toward an Archaeological Theory of Culture Contact
Rani T. Alexander

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