Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Colonial Campeche

by Tiesler, Vera

• ISBN13: 9780813034928
• ISBN10: 0813034922
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-28
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

Front cover: In this detail from a Dutch engraving that, in its entirety, shows Lorencillo's 1672 attack on Campeche, several of the buildings forming the Plaza de Armas are distinguishable: the bastion, the sea wall and, among the others, the old parish church. The proportions are not very exact. (Based on Antochiw drawing, Matacán 6 [2010].)

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction: Life and Death in the Town of Campeche during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 1
Mapping Colonial Life in the Main Plaza of Campeche	p. 8
The First Temple of Our Lady of the Conception in the Villa of San Francisco de Campeche	p. 36
Dying in the Colonies: Death, Burial, and Mortuary Patterning in Campeche's Main Plaza	p. 70
Living Conditions, Mortality, and Social Organization in Campeche during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 95
Social Inequality in the Early Spanish Colony: Oral Pathologies and Dental Enamel Hypoplasia in the Skeletal Sample from Campeche	p. 111
Identity, Alienation, and Integration: Body Modifications in the Early Colonial Population from Campeche	p. 130
The African Presence in Yucatan: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 152
Isotopic Evidence of the African Origins and Diet of Some Early Inhabitants of Campeche, Mexico	p. 175
Final Considerations: Unearthing Early Colonial Campeche	p. 194
Excavation of Campeche's Central Plaza, Levels II', III, and IV	p. 207
Lists of Burials and Their Locations, Funerary Modalities, and Respective Chrono-Vital Data and Comments	p. 213
List of Burials from the Cemetery of Campeche's Main Plaza and Their Ethnic Affiliation	p. 225
Glossary	p. 229
List of Abbreviations	p. 233
References	p. 235
List of Contributors	p. 249
Index	p. 251
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