Social, Material, and Symbolic Transformations of Value at the Margins of Colonization: A View from the Seventeenth-Century Metallurgical Terraces at Paa-ko (LA 162), NM

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Mining communities are often at the peripheries of colonial expansion. Yet, the material and social forms developed from such communities can profoundly affect colonial social and economic structures from local to global scales. The archaeological analyses of the metallurgical terraces at the Pueblo of Paa-ko allow for a perspective on the development of regimes of value, labor, and material meaning in the early colonial period of New Mexico. They also provide an avenue to explore how politically dominant cultural forms are challenged, selectively appropriated, and transformed. Tacking between local and global contexts, this paper explores how the construction of value in this community and others at the margins of colonial expansion had the potential to shape perceptions concerning value and wealth more broadly.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36370.0