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oapen-20.500.12657-866012024-01-11T13:09:57Z Hispaniola - Hell or Home? Kulstad-González, Pauline historical archaeology; Dominican Republic; grand narratives; Spanish conquest; decoloniality bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HD Archaeology bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KJ Caribbean islands Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all other possible narrations pertaining to a particular place and/or time. As more Caribbean territories become independent, the questioning of Grand Narratives has permeated many disciplines in the region, and archaeology is no exception. This work attempts to examine the lifeways at the archaeological site of Concepción de la Vega during its occupation from 1494 through 1564, using a Decolonial approach. Situated in present-day Dominican Republic (Hispaniola island), this site was one of the earliest and most affluent in Caribbean colonial history. The Decolonial approach used here critically analyzes and reinterprets primary data about Concepción from the point of view of those colonized, particularly non-elite, Indigenous peoples, and those of African descent. This approach uses various sources of data to recreate early lifeways, and helps gain a better understanding of the process through which the Spanish-American cultural tradition was created, and later disseminated, to the rest of Latin America. 2024-01-11T12:24:00Z 2024-01-11T12:24:00Z 2020 book 9789088908514 9789088908521 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86601 eng application/pdf n/a 9789088908514.pdf https://www.sidestone.com/books/hispaniola-hell-or-home Sidestone Press Sidestone Press Dissertations 471fd6d5-f295-4fd0-a13a-e60a6420f603 178e65b9-dd53-4922-b85c-0aaa74fce079 9789088908514 9789088908521 European Research Council (ERC) Sidestone Press Dissertations 258 Leiden 319209 NEXUS 1492 H2020 European Research Council H2020 Excellent Science - European Research Council open access
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Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all other possible narrations pertaining to a particular place and/or time. As more Caribbean territories become independent, the questioning of Grand Narratives has permeated many disciplines in the region, and archaeology is no exception.
This work attempts to examine the lifeways at the archaeological site of Concepción de la Vega during its occupation from 1494 through 1564, using a Decolonial approach. Situated in present-day Dominican Republic (Hispaniola island), this site was one of the earliest and most affluent in Caribbean colonial history.
The Decolonial approach used here critically analyzes and reinterprets primary data about Concepción from the point of view of those colonized, particularly non-elite, Indigenous peoples, and those of African descent. This approach uses various sources of data to recreate early lifeways, and helps gain a better understanding of the process through which the Spanish-American cultural tradition was created, and later disseminated, to the rest of Latin America.
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