Style and Resistance in the Seventeenth Century Salinas Province

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ID2591693
AutoresKatherine Spielmann (Arizona State University), Katherine A Spielmann, Jeannette L Mobley-Tanaka (Front Range Community College), James M Potter
Ano2006
Volume71
Fascículo4
Páginas621-647
Data de publicação2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/40035882
OpenAlexW2317170255
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas22

This paper draws upon James Scott's insights concerning the 'public' and 'hidden' transcripts of subjugated peoples to investigate Pueblo responses to Spanish colonization in the seventeenth century. We focus on the marked changes that occurred in the decoration of two ceramic wares produced in the Salinas Pueblo region of central New Mexico, and suggest that these changes express one aspect of native resistance to Spanish missionary efforts to eradicate Pueblo religious practices. We document that differences in the impact of missionization between the northern and southern Salinas pueblos led to marked and divergent changes in the ways women decorated glaze and white ware vessels. Women who made glaze ware bowls lived in villages under the direct control of Spanish missionaries, and appear to have deliberately simplified and masked the iconography on their vessels. Women who made white ware jars, however, lived in villages without resident Spanish missionaries. Following Spanish colonization, these women began decorating their vessels with detailed, diverse ritual iconography, apparently in an effort to reinforce, and probably to teach, religious knowledge

Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Glaze · Iconography · Pottery · Resistance (ecology · Style (visual arts · White (mutation · Archaeology and Natural History · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History