The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact - Hardcover

Wilcox, Michael V

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520252055 ISBN 13: 9780520252059

Publisher: University of California Press, 2009

Synopsis

In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses the question, What if we attempted to explain their presence in contemporary society five hundred years after Columbus instead of their disappearance or marginalization? Wilcox looks in particular at the 1680 Pueblo Revolt in colonial New Mexico, the most successful indigenous rebellion in the Americas, as a case study for dismantling the mythology of the perpetually vanishing Indian. Bringing recent archaeological findings to bear on traditional historical accounts, Wilcox suggests that a more profitable direction for understanding the history of Native cultures should involve analyses of issues such as violence, slavery, and the creative responses they generated.

About this title

Review:

"Infinitely more compelling than the lessons we're taught in school."--Stanford Report (07/02/2010)

"An important contribution to the disciplines of archaeology and history."--SMRC Revista (12/01/2011)

"A deeply analytical work which gives a well-researched view of the . . . interactions between the Spanish and Pueblo people."-- (07/12/2010)

About the Author:

Michael V. Wilcox is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0520252055
• ISBN 13: 9780520252059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336