Between the South Sea and the mountainous ridges
Biopolitical assemblages in the Spanish colonial Americas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7213302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noa Corcoran-Tadd (0000-0002-4927-3494, Leiden University, corresponding author), Guido Pezzarossi (0000-0002-6171-6403, Syracuse University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 84-101 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Post-Medieval Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-4236 • E-ISSN: 1745-8137 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00794236.2018.1461326 |
| OpenAlex | W2884625022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 73 |
Although the historical archaeology of the Spanish colonial world is currently witnessing an explosion of research in the Americas, the accompanying political economic framework has tended to remain little interrogated. This paper argues that Spanish colonial contexts bring into particular relief the entanglements between ‘core’ capitalist processes like ‘antimarkets’, dispossession and the disciplining of labour with the specific biopolitical ecologies assembled through co-option, coercion and accumulation. This perspective is explored through two archaeological case studies from Peru and Guatemala, where competing concerns about altitude, climate, disease, violence and populations of differentiated labouring bodies (both human and non-human) came to the fore in unexpected ways. The resulting discussion challenges the reliance on abstract analytical totalities like ‘capitalism’ and ‘colonialism’, and shifts attention towards the diverse assemblages of actors that shaped and continue to shape the processes central to political economic analyses
Archaeology · Capitalism · Coercion (linguistics · Colonialism · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Perspective (graphical · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law
An unproblematized truth
Theorizing the Global Hispanophone as a dynamic of (dis)entanglement
Beyond” the Grid of Labor Control
Mulas, tambos y plata
Revealing matters
Introduction
La ruta colonial de Potosí a Cobija y la vieja nueva praxis de modelos andinos mercantiles
The politics of environments before the environment
Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean
The idea of Latin America
Spanish Central America
Natural relations
The Inka Empire
Distilling the Influence of Alcohol
Montane Foragers
Social Cognition Unbound
Trade, tribute, and transportation
Demographic Collapse
Foucault in the Tropics
Labor and Monopoly Capital
Tribute, Antimarkets, and Consumption
The Variety and Ambiguity of Native Andean Intervention in European Colonial Markets
A Life on Broken China
Subduing Tendencies? Colonialism, Capitalism, and Comparative Atlantic Archaeologies
A Spectral Haunting of Society
Blacks and Blackness in Central America
Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism
The Other Adam Smith
Foucault in an Age of Terror
Approaches to the historical archaeology of Mexico, Central & South America
Homo Sacer
Ancient beer and modern brewers
Camelids in ancient Andean societies
Society Must Be Defended’
Biopower Today
The Emerging World System and Colonial Yucatan
Strange Lands and Different Peoples”
Born to Die
Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric
The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts
Archaeology of Culture Contact and Colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America
Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism
International Handbook of Historical Archaeology
A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World
Empire
Hillforts of the Ancient Andes
Puritan Conquistadors
Maya Society under Colonial Rule
Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes
Heavy Shadows and Black Night
On the Postcolony
Anthropologies of Modernity
Curacas coloniales
Feminist History of Colonial Science
Seizing the Means of Reproduction
State, peasant, mosquito
Paleopathology and health of native and introduced animals on Southern Peruvian and Bolivian Spanish Colonial sites
Substance and seduction
Braudel on Capitalism, or Everything Upside Down
Neoliberal Nature, Ecological Fixes, and the Pitfalls of Comparative Research
Virgin Soils Revisited
A Tumpline Economy
Text of the Laws of Burgos (1512-1513) Concerning the Treatment of the Indians
The Inka Empire
Secret Judgments of God
Adaptation to High Altitude
Rethinking the Economy with Thick Description and Weak Theory
Gender, Race, and Labor in the Archaeology of the Spanish Colonial Americas
| Citations per year | 1.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |