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Mining Datasets and Weaving Diverse Contexts: A Multisite Comparison of Indigenous Forced-Labor Compounds in Colonial Peru (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kennedy. Maria Smith. Di Hu.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Surveillance: Seeing and Power in the Material World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spanish Empire drew on multiple forms of forced Indigenous labor in their American colonies during the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. In the Andes, forced Indigenous labor was used to mine silver, craft textiles, grow sugar cane, and produce wine, among many other tasks critical to the colonial economy. Crucial...