Brendan J M Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 685221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan J M Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER B J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berea College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6413-0427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Historical Archaeology of South America: An Overview
Historical archaeology in South America is no longer a recent enterprise; an ever-growing number of national and foreign scholars have carried out an impressive diversity of projects across the continent since the middle of the twentieth century. This chapter offers a brief overview of the history of the subfield in the region and some of the current research. We approach these diverse works through a geographic and historical approach over a the…
Aesthetics of Afro-Andean Smoking Culture: Early Modern Peruvian Tobacco Pipes at the Edge of the Atlantic World
Although situated at the geographic margin of the early modern Atlantic World, the Pacific coast of Peru was an important region in the development of African diasporic material culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary material historical approach, we present the first systematic discussion of the known Afro-Atlantic-style tobacco pipes to be archaeologically recovered in Peru. Eighteen Afro-Atlantic-style tobacco pipes or pipe sherds dating to Per…
From Slavery to Servitude: Transformations and Continuities in Hacienda Labor, Well-Being, and Foodways in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nasca
The nineteenth century was a dynamic period for hacienda workers on the south coast of Peru. Former Jesuit vineyards with two of the largest enslaved African-descended populations in rural coastal Peru-the haciendas of San Joseph (San José) and San Francisco Xavier (San Javier)-and their annexes in Nasca's Ingenio Valley underwent dramatic transformations with the replacement of their grapevines with cotton and the introduction of new types of wo…
Reflections on ‘material histories’ and the archaeology of slavery in Peru
Heritage and the Archaeology of Afro-Peru: Community Engagement in the Valleys of Nasca
The Grace of God and Virtue of Obedience”: The Archaeology of Slavery and the Jesuit Hacienda Systems of Nasca, Peru, 1619–1767
Multi-scalar archaeological exploration offers new insights for understanding Jesuit estate systems and the slavery they depended on for agroindustrial production. Since 2009, ethnohistorical and archaeological research on two haciendas, San Joseph and San Francisco Xavier de la Nasca, in south coastal Peru’s Ingenio Valley, has illuminated the Jesuit institutions of slavery and the hacienda in colonial Peru. Belonging to two distinct Jesuit inst…
An Archaeology of the Aesthetic: Slavery and Politics at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca
This article makes the case for the utility of an aesthetic approach to the archaeological record, drawing on the philosophical work of Jacques Rancière on aesthetics and politics. The case of an archaeology of African slavery on Jesuit vineyards in colonial Peru is offered to explore nuances in power and the production of enslaved subjectivities that become visible through a consideration of aesthetic fields. Of particular interest are the aesth…
Ghosts of the Haciendas: Memory, Architecture, and the Architecture of Memory in the Post-Hacienda Era of Southern Coastal Peru
The implementation of the Velasco administration's agrarian reforms in the 1970s transformed Peru's rural landscape and the ways in which communities relate to the physical reminders of the time of the haciendas. Community engagement during recent archaeological research at colonial Jesuit wine haciendas in Nasca's Ingenio Valley has revealed narratives that link historical memory on the former estates to fantastical imagery of ghosts, treasure, …
Supplies, Status, and Slavery: Contested Aesthetics of Provisioning at the Jesuit Haciendas of Nasca
Rethinking the political economy of slavery: The hacienda aesthetic at the Jesuit vineyards of Nasca, Peru
Traditional political economy has a number of limitations that make it ill-suited for exploring the nuances of cultural communication in colonial cultural contexts, and for elucidating the specific ways in which meaning is produced within the dialectics of power. Following the pragmatic turn in archaeology, this paper suggests a revaluation of the political economy of early modern slavery, describing and employing aesthetic and semiotic tools to …
Arqueología histórica en el Perú: La sociedad andina en la transición económica, política y social
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Arqueología histórica en el Perú: Posibilidades y perspectivas
En el Perú actual, ¿qué es la «arqueología histórica»? La respuesta puede parecer algo simple: es el estudio, que emplea métodos arqueológicos, de entornos, momentos y procesos que también se encuentran registrados de manera contemporánea en textos escritos. Sin embargo, esta definición abarca una serie de preguntas adicionales, más implícitas: ¿Qué tipo de textos cuentan como sufi- cientemente «históricos» y cómo están relacionados con la eviden…
Para beneficiar la plata: Mano de obra, papel, y posición social en una refinería de plata durante el primer siglo del imperialismo español en el pueblo de Porco
Before the Spanish conquest, the town of Porco, in the Department of Potos in modern-day Bolivia, was the site of one of the most important Inca mining projects. During the viceregal period it became the focus of the first Spanish silver mining operations of the in the Andes. This region offers an excellent opportunity for historical archeology to ask questions about the relationship between the states that organized such mining projects and the …
Contours of Labor and History: A Diachronic Perspective on Andean Mineral Production and the Making of Landscapes in Porco, Bolivia
Perspectivas para el desarrollo de una arqueología de la diáspora africana en el Perú: Resultados preliminares del proyecto arqueológico Haciendas de Nasca
Durante el periodo colonial en el Perú, gente libre y esclavizadade ascendencia africana no sólo constituía una parte significativa de la población costera, sino también vivían y trabajaban en toda la región andina. Sin embargo, estas poblaciones han sido insuficientemente representadas en la investigación arqueológica, o han sido rendidas invisibles por las metodologías y preguntas no relacionadas de manera directa a la diáspora. En este artícul…
Supplies, Status, and Slavery: Contested Aesthetics of Provisioning at the Jesuit Haciendas of Nasca
Contours of Labor and History: A Diachronic Perspective on Andean Mineral Production and the Making of Landscapes in Porco, Bolivia
Rethinking the political economy of slavery: The hacienda aesthetic at the Jesuit vineyards of Nasca, Peru
Traditional political economy has a number of limitations that make it ill-suited for exploring the nuances of cultural communication in colonial cultural contexts, and for elucidating the specific ways in which meaning is produced within the dialectics of power. Following the pragmatic turn in archaeology, this paper suggests a revaluation of the political economy of early modern slavery, describing and employing aesthetic and semiotic tools to …
Arqueología histórica en el Perú: Posibilidades y perspectivas
En el Perú actual, ¿qué es la «arqueología histórica»? La respuesta puede parecer algo simple: es el estudio, que emplea métodos arqueológicos, de entornos, momentos y procesos que también se encuentran registrados de manera contemporánea en textos escritos. Sin embargo, esta definición abarca una serie de preguntas adicionales, más implícitas: ¿Qué tipo de textos cuentan como sufi- cientemente «históricos» y cómo están relacionados con la eviden…
The Grace of God and Virtue of Obedience”: The Archaeology of Slavery and the Jesuit Hacienda Systems of Nasca, Peru, 1619–1767
Multi-scalar archaeological exploration offers new insights for understanding Jesuit estate systems and the slavery they depended on for agroindustrial production. Since 2009, ethnohistorical and archaeological research on two haciendas, San Joseph and San Francisco Xavier de la Nasca, in south coastal Peru’s Ingenio Valley, has illuminated the Jesuit institutions of slavery and the hacienda in colonial Peru. Belonging to two distinct Jesuit inst…
An Archaeology of the Aesthetic: Slavery and Politics at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca
This article makes the case for the utility of an aesthetic approach to the archaeological record, drawing on the philosophical work of Jacques Rancière on aesthetics and politics. The case of an archaeology of African slavery on Jesuit vineyards in colonial Peru is offered to explore nuances in power and the production of enslaved subjectivities that become visible through a consideration of aesthetic fields. Of particular interest are the aesth…
Ghosts of the Haciendas: Memory, Architecture, and the Architecture of Memory in the Post-Hacienda Era of Southern Coastal Peru
The implementation of the Velasco administration's agrarian reforms in the 1970s transformed Peru's rural landscape and the ways in which communities relate to the physical reminders of the time of the haciendas. Community engagement during recent archaeological research at colonial Jesuit wine haciendas in Nasca's Ingenio Valley has revealed narratives that link historical memory on the former estates to fantastical imagery of ghosts, treasure, …
Perspectivas para el desarrollo de una arqueología de la diáspora africana en el Perú: Resultados preliminares del proyecto arqueológico Haciendas de Nasca
Durante el periodo colonial en el Perú, gente libre y esclavizadade ascendencia africana no sólo constituía una parte significativa de la población costera, sino también vivían y trabajaban en toda la región andina. Sin embargo, estas poblaciones han sido insuficientemente representadas en la investigación arqueológica, o han sido rendidas invisibles por las metodologías y preguntas no relacionadas de manera directa a la diáspora. En este artícul…
Heritage and the Archaeology of Afro-Peru: Community Engagement in the Valleys of Nasca
From Slavery to Servitude: Transformations and Continuities in Hacienda Labor, Well-Being, and Foodways in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nasca
The nineteenth century was a dynamic period for hacienda workers on the south coast of Peru. Former Jesuit vineyards with two of the largest enslaved African-descended populations in rural coastal Peru-the haciendas of San Joseph (San José) and San Francisco Xavier (San Javier)-and their annexes in Nasca's Ingenio Valley underwent dramatic transformations with the replacement of their grapevines with cotton and the introduction of new types of wo…
Reflections on ‘material histories’ and the archaeology of slavery in Peru
Arqueología histórica en el Perú: La sociedad andina en la transición económica, política y social
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Contours of Labor and History: A Diachronic Perspective on Andean Mineral Production and the Making of Landscapes in Porco, Bolivia
Perspectivas para el desarrollo de una arqueología de la diáspora africana en el Perú: Resultados preliminares del proyecto arqueológico Haciendas de Nasca
Durante el periodo colonial en el Perú, gente libre y esclavizadade ascendencia africana no sólo constituía una parte significativa de la población costera, sino también vivían y trabajaban en toda la región andina. Sin embargo, estas poblaciones han sido insuficientemente representadas en la investigación arqueológica, o han sido rendidas invisibles por las metodologías y preguntas no relacionadas de manera directa a la diáspora. En este artícul…
Arqueología histórica en el Perú: La sociedad andina en la transición económica, política y social
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Arqueología histórica en el Perú: Posibilidades y perspectivas
En el Perú actual, ¿qué es la «arqueología histórica»? La respuesta puede parecer algo simple: es el estudio, que emplea métodos arqueológicos, de entornos, momentos y procesos que también se encuentran registrados de manera contemporánea en textos escritos. Sin embargo, esta definición abarca una serie de preguntas adicionales, más implícitas: ¿Qué tipo de textos cuentan como sufi- cientemente «históricos» y cómo están relacionados con la eviden…
Para beneficiar la plata: Mano de obra, papel, y posición social en una refinería de plata durante el primer siglo del imperialismo español en el pueblo de Porco
Before the Spanish conquest, the town of Porco, in the Department of Potos in modern-day Bolivia, was the site of one of the most important Inca mining projects. During the viceregal period it became the focus of the first Spanish silver mining operations of the in the Andes. This region offers an excellent opportunity for historical archeology to ask questions about the relationship between the states that organized such mining projects and the …
Rethinking the political economy of slavery: The hacienda aesthetic at the Jesuit vineyards of Nasca, Peru
Traditional political economy has a number of limitations that make it ill-suited for exploring the nuances of cultural communication in colonial cultural contexts, and for elucidating the specific ways in which meaning is produced within the dialectics of power. Following the pragmatic turn in archaeology, this paper suggests a revaluation of the political economy of early modern slavery, describing and employing aesthetic and semiotic tools to …
Supplies, Status, and Slavery: Contested Aesthetics of Provisioning at the Jesuit Haciendas of Nasca
Ghosts of the Haciendas: Memory, Architecture, and the Architecture of Memory in the Post-Hacienda Era of Southern Coastal Peru
The implementation of the Velasco administration's agrarian reforms in the 1970s transformed Peru's rural landscape and the ways in which communities relate to the physical reminders of the time of the haciendas. Community engagement during recent archaeological research at colonial Jesuit wine haciendas in Nasca's Ingenio Valley has revealed narratives that link historical memory on the former estates to fantastical imagery of ghosts, treasure, …
The Grace of God and Virtue of Obedience”: The Archaeology of Slavery and the Jesuit Hacienda Systems of Nasca, Peru, 1619–1767
Multi-scalar archaeological exploration offers new insights for understanding Jesuit estate systems and the slavery they depended on for agroindustrial production. Since 2009, ethnohistorical and archaeological research on two haciendas, San Joseph and San Francisco Xavier de la Nasca, in south coastal Peru’s Ingenio Valley, has illuminated the Jesuit institutions of slavery and the hacienda in colonial Peru. Belonging to two distinct Jesuit inst…
An Archaeology of the Aesthetic: Slavery and Politics at the Jesuit Vineyards of Nasca
This article makes the case for the utility of an aesthetic approach to the archaeological record, drawing on the philosophical work of Jacques Rancière on aesthetics and politics. The case of an archaeology of African slavery on Jesuit vineyards in colonial Peru is offered to explore nuances in power and the production of enslaved subjectivities that become visible through a consideration of aesthetic fields. Of particular interest are the aesth…
Reflections on ‘material histories’ and the archaeology of slavery in Peru
Heritage and the Archaeology of Afro-Peru: Community Engagement in the Valleys of Nasca
Aesthetics of Afro-Andean Smoking Culture: Early Modern Peruvian Tobacco Pipes at the Edge of the Atlantic World
Although situated at the geographic margin of the early modern Atlantic World, the Pacific coast of Peru was an important region in the development of African diasporic material culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary material historical approach, we present the first systematic discussion of the known Afro-Atlantic-style tobacco pipes to be archaeologically recovered in Peru. Eighteen Afro-Atlantic-style tobacco pipes or pipe sherds dating to Per…
From Slavery to Servitude: Transformations and Continuities in Hacienda Labor, Well-Being, and Foodways in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Nasca
The nineteenth century was a dynamic period for hacienda workers on the south coast of Peru. Former Jesuit vineyards with two of the largest enslaved African-descended populations in rural coastal Peru-the haciendas of San Joseph (San José) and San Francisco Xavier (San Javier)-and their annexes in Nasca's Ingenio Valley underwent dramatic transformations with the replacement of their grapevines with cotton and the introduction of new types of wo…
The Historical Archaeology of South America: An Overview
Historical archaeology in South America is no longer a recent enterprise; an ever-growing number of national and foreign scholars have carried out an impressive diversity of projects across the continent since the middle of the twentieth century. This chapter offers a brief overview of the history of the subfield in the region and some of the current research. We approach these diverse works through a geographic and historical approach over a the…
Art (11 works) · History (11 works) · History (11 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (8 works) · Ethnology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Humanities (6 works)