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The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
2023
Overview
Examining the long-lasting effects of European
colonization on Mexican populations
The Biocultural Consequences of Contact in Mexico
explores how Mexican populations have been shaped both culturally
and biologically by the arrival of Spanish conquistadors and the
years following the defeat of the Aztec empire in 1521.
Contributors to this volume draw on a diverse set of methods from
archaeology, bioarchaeology, genetics, and history to examine the
response to European colonization, providing evidence for the
resilience of the Mexican people in the face of tumultuous
change.
Essays focus on Central Mexico, Yucatan, and Oaxaca, providing a
cross-regional perspective, and they highlight Mexican scholars'
work and viewpoints. They examine the effects of the
castas system-which the colonizers used to organize
society according to parentage and the social construction of
race-on individuals' and groups' access to power, social mobility,
health, and mate choice. Contributors illuminate the poorly
understood extent that this system-and the national identity of
mestizaje that replaced it-caused inequality and the
structural violence of stress and health disparities, as well as
genetic admixture.
Five hundred years after the Spanish first clashed with Aztec
forces and began to influence modern Mexico, this volume adds to
discussions of colonialism, the reconstruction of biosocial
relationships, and the work of decolonization. Students and
scholars in anthropology and history will gain insights into how
human populations transform and adapt in the wake of major
historical events that result in migration, demographic change, and
social upheaval.
Contributors: Josefina Bautista Martínez |
Alfredo Coppa | Andrea Cucina | Heather J. H. Edgar | Blanca Z.
González-Sobrino | María Teresa Jaén Esquivel | Haagen D. Klaus |
Michaela Lucci | Abigail Meza-Peñaloza | Emily Moes | Corey S.
Ragsdale | Katelyn M. Rusk | Robert C. Schwaller | Julie K. Wesp |
Cathy Willermet
A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the
Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by
Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher
University of Florida Press,University Press of Florida
Subject
/ Cultural
/ Europe
/ Europe -- Emigration and immigration -- History
/ HISTORY
/ Mexico
/ Mexico -- Civilization -- European influences
/ Mexico -- Civilization -- Sources
/ Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- History
/ Mexico -- Social life and customs -- European influences
/ Mexico-Social life and customs
/ Physical
/ Sources
ISBN
9781683403500, 1683403509, 9781683403647, 1683403649
