During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous people became "Indios," their language, appearance, and identity transformed by the domination imposed by a foreign model that Christianized and "civilized" them. Yet El Chorro de Maita retained many of its indigenous characteristics.
In this volume--one of the first in English to examine and document an archaeological site in Cuba--Roberto Valcarcel Rojas analyzes the construction of colonial authority and the various attitudes and...
During Spanish colonization of the Greater Antilles, the islands' natives were forced into labor under the encomienda system. The indigenous...
