Bøger af Kathleen Deagan

Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America interrogates the profound cultural impacts of Catholic policies and practice in La Florida during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Catholicism and Native Americans in Early North America explores the ways in which the church negotiated the founding of a Catholic society in colonial America, beginning in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565. Although the church was deeply involved in all aspects of daily life and institutional organization, the book underscores the tensions inherent in creating and sustaining a Catholic tradition in an unfamiliar and socially diverse population.Using new primary academic scholarship, the contributors explore missionaries' accommodations to Catholic practice in the process of conversion; the ways in which social and racial differentiation were played out in the treatment of the dead; Native literacy and the production of religious texts; the impacts of differing conversion philosophies among various religious orders; and the historical and theological backgrounds of Catholicism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century America. Bringing together insights from archaeology, social history, linguistics, and theology, this groundbreaking volume moves beyond the missions to reveal how Native people, friars, secular priests, and Spanish parishioners practiced Catholicism across what is now the southeastern United States.Contributors: Kathleen Deagan, Keith Ashley, George Aaron Broadwell, José Antonio Crespo-Francés Y Valero, Timothy J. Johnson, Rochelle Marrinan, Susan Richbourg Parker, David Hurst Thomas, Gifford Waters

Life in an Indigenous town during anunderstudied era of Haitian history Thisbook details the Indigenous Taíno occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola betweenAD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changesimposed by Spanish contact. En Bas Saline is the largest late precontact Taínotown recorded in what is now Haiti; the only one that has been extensivelyexcavated and analyzed; and one of few with archaeologically documentedoccupation both before and after the arrival of Columbus in 1492. It is thoughtto be the site of La Navidad, Columbus's first settlement, where the cacique Guacanagaríoffered refuge and shelter after the sinking of the Santa María. KathleenDeagan providesan intrasite and spatial analysis of En Bas Saline by focusing on households, foodways, ceramics, and crafts and offers insights into social organization andchiefly power in this political center through domestic and ornamental materialculture. Postcontact changes are seen in patterns of gendered behavior, as wellas in the power base of the caciques, challenging the traditional assumptionthat Taíno society was devastatingly disrupted almost immediately aftercontact. En Bas Saline is the onlyarchaeological account of the consequences of contact from the perspective ofthe Taíno peoples' lived experience. Avolume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series