Revisiting Criollas: Recent Findings from Casa Blanca Archaeological Contexts, San Juan, Puerto Rico

López, Jorge A. Rodríguez; Groennou, Juan Miguel Rivera; Fontán, Juan A. Rivera

doi:10.1007/s10761-022-00673-4

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“…The local ceramics are elaborate, well made, and belong to types typical across the Mona passage region (Rouse, 1992). This stands in contrast to ceramics from contemporary colonial‐era sites elsewhere, such as the Criolla pottery made by Indigenous domestic laborers in Casa Blanca in San Juan (Rodríguez López et al., 2022; and elsewhere Deagan and Cruxent, 1993, 76; García Arévalo, 1991; Ortega and Fondeur, 1978; Shea and Woodward, 2019; Valcárcel Rojas, 2016, 348–53). The Mona ceramics give no indication of change or production under duress, such as loss of traditional decoration, the development of European‐inflected forms, or the presence of non‐Antillean Indigenous pottery, which would provide further indications of a diversity of laborer origins.…”

Section: Archaeology Of Hammocks and Cassava Breadmentioning

confidence: 88%

Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean

Samson,

Cooper,

Martínez Milantchi

et al. 2023

American Anthropologist

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This article is a reflection on early colonial industries as caring labor rather than just commodity production or resistance. We draw on Indigenous philosophies of relations and Amazonian ontologies to foreground care and frame the Caribbean material record. We investigate how traditional things such as hammocks and cassava bread produced by a sixteenth‐century encomienda population on Mona Island, part of the Puerto Rican archipelago, quickly became part and parcel of free and unfree contexts, extending sensory environments and shaping conditions of interaction throughout the Caribbean. Consideration of traditional things and ways they are incorporated within new assemblages of people and places reveals alternative world‐making projects, a speculative rejoinder to singular narratives of exploitation.

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Section: Archaeology Of Hammocks and Cassava Breadmentioning

confidence: 88%