Cultura material e arqueologia historica.

Cultura material e arqueologia historica. PEDRO PAULO A. FUNARI (ed.). Cultura material e arqueologiahistorica. 317 pages, illustrations. 1998. Campinas: Campinas StateUniversity Institute of Philosophy & Human Sciences; 85-86572-04-7;paperback; R$8 & $10. Dr JAMIESON has studied the secular buildings and material cultureof Cuenca and its direct hinterland (haciendas) during the Colonialperiod Colonial Period may generally refer to any period in a country's history when it was subject to administration by a colonial power. Korea under Japanese rule Colonial America See alsoColonialism . Cuenca seems to have replaced the Inca site of Tomebamba. Heassessed layout and features of design in houses in different parts ofthe town, collated inventories of the period, and made smallexcavations. Although he concentrated more on Spanish sites, Dr JAMIESONdistinguishes Spanish and Native traits and argues that KathleenDeagan's model of cultural polarity at St Augustine, Florida, failsto account, at Cuenca, for a blurring of material distinctions betweenNative and European. Was that partly on account of comparatively highNative population in this part of the Andes? Dr SCHAVELSON shows that, for the three centuries from 1580, themyth that Buenos Aires Buenos Aires(bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. is a European town was ill founded. Excavationhas shown that the contents of houses belied the determinedly classicalstreet plan: from the mid 19th century, it was a city of intensediversity. Dr SCHAVELSON argues that archaeology has contributed to anunderstanding of the city's historical topography. Evidence ofearlier periods is scant, however. The considerable African presenceknown from documentary sources is difficult to detect archaeologically.Yet Native pottery shows clearly in earlier levels even though thesources indicate that Indians were never numerous. Dr SCHAVELSONsummarizes the results of excavations in 13 houses of diverse socialstatus, a hostel, a workshop built over the site of a convent, the townhall, tunnels, and surveys of parks. The chapter on finds explains that,although ground conditions are inimical inimical,n a homeopathic remedy whose actions hinder, but do not counteract those of another. Also calledincompatible. to preservation of bone, moreaffluent households were great meat eaters (their scraps were sent offto Fray Bentos Fray Bentos(frī`bān`tōs), city (1996 pop. 22,577), capital of Río Negro dept., SW Uruguay, a port on the Uruguay River. It was founded in 1859 as Independencia and renamed for an 18th-century religious hermit of the region. , no doubt). The translation is not wholly reliable --vecinos, for instance, were not merely neighbours. The 10 papers (8 Portuguese, 2 in English) in Cultura material earqueologia historica explore Brazil. Dr FUNARI opens the book with apithy pith��y?adj. pith��i��er, pith��i��est1. Precisely meaningful; forceful and brief: a pithy comment.2. Consisting of or resembling pith. but very widely ranging review of the relation of archaeology tohistory in particular reference to South America. The themes among theaccompanying papers cover towns, exploration of Brazil's interior,gender in the home, Indian smoking pipes, pottery of the independentAfrican enclave of Palmares, and the roles of museums for preservationand education. Two of the papers concentrate especially on style andthree on images of socio-political identity.