Manufacturing landscapes in spanish America: the case study of copper exploitation in Mexico (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2019

Authors

Polónia, Amélia (Author) FLUP; García Zaldúa, Johan (Author) Other

Book

Title: Mining, money and markets in the early modern Atlantic: digital approaches and new perspectives

Pages: 127-162

ISBN: 978-3-030-23893-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-23894-0

Publisher: Springer Publishing

Indexing

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Humanities > History > Economic history

Other information

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23894-0_6

Abstract (EN): Assuming that the cultural systems of colonisers and indigenous peoples were mutually interdependent, the paper discusses two ideas: (1) Syncretism, mutual adaptation and assimilation processes were integral parts of a transformative process of society and environment in colonial contexts; (2) European cultural patterns were not the only ones responsible for altering landscapes in colonial spaces. These theoretical assumptions will be submitted to empirical evidence by analysing the human and environmental impacts of indigenous-Spanish copper production on the cultural and natural landscapes of South-Central Michoacán, Mexico.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific