Tangled Strands of Silk

Globalizing the Local in Early Modern San Miguel Achiutla, Oaxaca

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2740554
AutoresJamie E Forde (University of Edinburgh, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen69
Número3
Páginas287-311
Fecha de publicación2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnohistory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00141801-9705922
OpenAlexW4300343971
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas19

This article takes the community of San Miguel Achiutla, located in the Mixtec highlands of Oaxaca, as a case study through which to examine the complex involvements of Indigenous pueblos de indios of Mexico in the early modern dynamics of globalization. Drawing from both ethnohistorical and archaeological evidence, this analysis shows not only how residents of this community were affected by forces of globalization as they appropriated new goods and ideas from across the Pacific and Atlantic, but also how they played an active economic role in driving colonial expansion during the sixteenth century, particularly through the silk trade. In tracing these connections, we see how locally focused microhistories can shed light on aspects of early modern globalization that we might not otherwise attend to

Archaeology · Colonialism · Economic geography · Ethnology · Geography · Globalization · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Latin American history and culture · Law