Author : Karen F. Anderson-Córdova
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817319465
Surviving Spanish Conquest by Karen F. Anderson-Córdova Pdf
Focusing on Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, the first Caribbean islands to be conquered and colonized by the Spanish, Anderson-Cordova explains Indian sociocultural transformation within the context of two specific processes, out-migration and in-migration, highlighting how population shifts contributed to the diversification of peoples. For example, as the growing presence of 'foreign' Indians from other areas of the Caribbean complicated the variety of responses by Indian groups, her investigation reveals that Indians who were subjected to slavery, or the 'encomienda system, ' accommodated and absorbed many Spanish customs, yet resumed their own rituals when allowed to return to their villages. Other Indians fled in response to the arrival of the Spanish.