Sandra Montón-Subías
Biographic Data
| ID | 6054785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra Montón-Subías |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Montón-Subías |
| SIGNATURE | MONTÓN-SUBÍAS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Departament d’Humanitats, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Colonialism before Colonization
This article argues that colonialism in Tåno’ Låguas yan Gåni – named the Mariana Islands by Spanish colonial agents in the 17th century – began well before the establishment of a permanent Jesuit mission in 1668. Drawing on early modern European chronicles, it examines how interactions between Indigenous CHamoru/Chamorro communities and European – primarily Spanish – expeditions from 1521 to 1668 were already structured by a colonial logic of vi…
Margins are central
Early modern colonial globalization was the first producer of marginality and cultural erasure on a world scale. The CHamorus of Guam and Marianas know this well since they were the first Pacific islanders to be turned into indigenous 'others' by European colonial powers. In a certain sense, investigating Guam is like investigating a huge terrain vague, or an interstice or in-between space that exists outside the cultural, social, and economic dy…
Engendered Archaeologies
First Missions in Oceania
This essay outlines and explores the broader implications of preliminary archaeological excavations at the colonial church and cemetery of San Dionisio (Humatak, Guam, Mariana Islands). The native Chamorro of the Marianas were the first Pacific Islanders to experience European colonialism following the inception of the Jesuit mission in 1668. Although the Marianas were once perceived as a peripheral outpost of Spanish colonialism in the 17th cent…
Gender, Feminist, and Queer Archaeologies
Engendered Archaeologies
Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism
Towards a Comparative Approach to Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism
Engendered Archaeologies
Field Archaeology from Around the World
Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the commu…
European Gender Archaeologies in Historical Perspective
This study presents an overview of the development of gender archaeologies in local academies across Europe, from the initial efforts in Norway in the early 1970s, to the founding of the multinational Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) working group in 2009. In addition, the study seeks to show the scope of gender archaeology once contributions from different traditions in different languages are included, and to provide comparative historiog…
Muerte e identidad femenina en el mundo argárico
Ya que la identidad se construye en un contexto de interacción social, es de suponer que el comportamiento funerario formaría parte de la construcción social de la identidad en las comunidades prehistóricas. Por lo tanto, también debió actuar como componente activo en la representación y negociación de las identidades sociales argáricas, incluida la femenina, cuyo estudio se propone este artículo. En las siguientes páginas repasaré las prácticas …
Reply to Comments from Liv Helga Dommasnes and John Robb
Black Swans and Archaeological Interpretation
‘Black Swans’ are extraordinary, highly unexpected events. Inspired by Nicholas Taleb's 2007 book of the same title, my contention in this paper is that exceptional events carry a great – and as yet untapped – explanatory potential in the field of archaeology. Archaeological exceptions, i.e. instances or occurrences deviating from the archaeological norms and patterns as constructed in our discipline, are usually dismissed, ignored or deemed irre…
Conflicting evidence? Weapons and skeletons in the Bronze Age of south-east Iberia
With its forts, swords, halberds and daggers the Argaric people of south-east Spain has long been seen as a warrior society. The authors dismantle this model, showing that defences around settlements and weapons and knives in tombs have quite different social roles. An analysis of skeletons showed that while these Bronze Age people might have been periodically clubbing each other on the head, they were not doing a lot of lethal stabbing
European Gender Archaeologies in Historical Perspective
This study presents an overview of the development of gender archaeologies in local academies across Europe, from the initial efforts in Norway in the early 1970s, to the founding of the multinational Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) working group in 2009. In addition, the study seeks to show the scope of gender archaeology once contributions from different traditions in different languages are included, and to provide comparative historiog…
Muerte e identidad femenina en el mundo argárico
Ya que la identidad se construye en un contexto de interacción social, es de suponer que el comportamiento funerario formaría parte de la construcción social de la identidad en las comunidades prehistóricas. Por lo tanto, también debió actuar como componente activo en la representación y negociación de las identidades sociales argáricas, incluida la femenina, cuyo estudio se propone este artículo. En las siguientes páginas repasaré las prácticas …
Conflicting evidence? Weapons and skeletons in the Bronze Age of south-east Iberia
With its forts, swords, halberds and daggers the Argaric people of south-east Spain has long been seen as a warrior society. The authors dismantle this model, showing that defences around settlements and weapons and knives in tombs have quite different social roles. An analysis of skeletons showed that while these Bronze Age people might have been periodically clubbing each other on the head, they were not doing a lot of lethal stabbing
Field Archaeology from Around the World
Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the commu…
Black Swans and Archaeological Interpretation
‘Black Swans’ are extraordinary, highly unexpected events. Inspired by Nicholas Taleb's 2007 book of the same title, my contention in this paper is that exceptional events carry a great – and as yet untapped – explanatory potential in the field of archaeology. Archaeological exceptions, i.e. instances or occurrences deviating from the archaeological norms and patterns as constructed in our discipline, are usually dismissed, ignored or deemed irre…
Margins are central
Early modern colonial globalization was the first producer of marginality and cultural erasure on a world scale. The CHamorus of Guam and Marianas know this well since they were the first Pacific islanders to be turned into indigenous 'others' by European colonial powers. In a certain sense, investigating Guam is like investigating a huge terrain vague, or an interstice or in-between space that exists outside the cultural, social, and economic dy…
Conflicting evidence? Weapons and skeletons in the Bronze Age of south-east Iberia
With its forts, swords, halberds and daggers the Argaric people of south-east Spain has long been seen as a warrior society. The authors dismantle this model, showing that defences around settlements and weapons and knives in tombs have quite different social roles. An analysis of skeletons showed that while these Bronze Age people might have been periodically clubbing each other on the head, they were not doing a lot of lethal stabbing
Muerte e identidad femenina en el mundo argárico
Ya que la identidad se construye en un contexto de interacción social, es de suponer que el comportamiento funerario formaría parte de la construcción social de la identidad en las comunidades prehistóricas. Por lo tanto, también debió actuar como componente activo en la representación y negociación de las identidades sociales argáricas, incluida la femenina, cuyo estudio se propone este artículo. En las siguientes páginas repasaré las prácticas …
Reply to Comments from Liv Helga Dommasnes and John Robb
Black Swans and Archaeological Interpretation
‘Black Swans’ are extraordinary, highly unexpected events. Inspired by Nicholas Taleb's 2007 book of the same title, my contention in this paper is that exceptional events carry a great – and as yet untapped – explanatory potential in the field of archaeology. Archaeological exceptions, i.e. instances or occurrences deviating from the archaeological norms and patterns as constructed in our discipline, are usually dismissed, ignored or deemed irre…
European Gender Archaeologies in Historical Perspective
This study presents an overview of the development of gender archaeologies in local academies across Europe, from the initial efforts in Norway in the early 1970s, to the founding of the multinational Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) working group in 2009. In addition, the study seeks to show the scope of gender archaeology once contributions from different traditions in different languages are included, and to provide comparative historiog…
Engendered Archaeologies
Field Archaeology from Around the World
Field practice in archaeology varies greatly throughout the world, mainly because archaeological sites survive in very different ways in different counties. Many manuals see this as a problem - to be defeated by the imposition of standardised procedures. In this book we relish the variety of field practice, seeing it rather as the way the best archaeologists have responded creatively to the challenges of terrain, research objectives and the commu…
Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism
Towards a Comparative Approach to Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism
Engendered Archaeologies
Engendered Archaeologies
First Missions in Oceania
This essay outlines and explores the broader implications of preliminary archaeological excavations at the colonial church and cemetery of San Dionisio (Humatak, Guam, Mariana Islands). The native Chamorro of the Marianas were the first Pacific Islanders to experience European colonialism following the inception of the Jesuit mission in 1668. Although the Marianas were once perceived as a peripheral outpost of Spanish colonialism in the 17th cent…
Gender, Feminist, and Queer Archaeologies
Margins are central
Early modern colonial globalization was the first producer of marginality and cultural erasure on a world scale. The CHamorus of Guam and Marianas know this well since they were the first Pacific islanders to be turned into indigenous 'others' by European colonial powers. In a certain sense, investigating Guam is like investigating a huge terrain vague, or an interstice or in-between space that exists outside the cultural, social, and economic dy…
Colonialism before Colonization
This article argues that colonialism in Tåno’ Låguas yan Gåni – named the Mariana Islands by Spanish colonial agents in the 17th century – began well before the establishment of a permanent Jesuit mission in 1668. Drawing on early modern European chronicles, it examines how interactions between Indigenous CHamoru/Chamorro communities and European – primarily Spanish – expeditions from 1521 to 1668 were already structured by a colonial logic of vi…
History (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)