In this Book
- The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses the question, What if we attempted to explain their presence in contemporary society five hundred years after Columbus instead of their disappearance or marginalization? Wilcox looks in particular at the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in colonial New Mexico, the most successful indigenous rebellion in the Americas, as a case study for dismantling the mythology of the perpetually vanishing Indian. Bringing recent archaeological findings to bear on traditional historical accounts, Wilcox suggests that a more profitable direction for understanding the history of Native cultures should involve analyses of issues such as violence, slavery, and the creative responses they generated.
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-ix
- 2. Creating the Invisible Indian
- pp. 35-53
- 8. Repatriating Old Cochiti
- pp. 233-244
- References
- pp. 263-304
- Production Notes
- pp. 317-332
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520944589
Related ISBN(s)
9780520252059
MARC Record
OCLC
506293144
Pages
334
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No