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Community and the Contours of Empire: The Hacienda System in the Northern Highlands of Ecuador
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Relationships between humans and material goods are key in the emergences of social identity and status under imperial projects. I argue that a critical focus on the concept of “community” provides a salient frame by which to assess status and identity and that everyday materiality is a key mechanism by which such collective forms of identity are forged. I draw on historical documents, oral histories, and archaeological evidence of a late nineteenth-century indigenous hacienda laborer household from Hacienda Guachalá, highlands of Ecuador, and show that status and identity may be generated through what you do rather than what you own.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cossin, Z. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cossin, Zev A.
- Venue
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology
- Published
- 2019-01-03
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1039-1062
- ISSN
- 1092-7697 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7748
- OpenAlex
- W2618055779
- Cited by
- 5
- References
- 92
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- International Journal of Historical Archaeology (publishedVersion)
- The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Latin American history and culture
- Keywords
- community, empire, hacienda system, social status, social identity, materiality, 19th century, colonial Ecuador
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