The "Predicament of Culture" and Spanish Missionary Accounts of the Tepehuan and Pueblo Revolts

Wari’s imperial influence on local Nasca diet: The stable isotope evidence

“…In North America, the southwestern Pueblos (Reff, 1995), the coastal California Chumash (Beebe and Senkewicz, 1996), and the coastal southeastern Guale (Larsen et al, 2001) all revolted against the Spanish largely over forced conscription for ever-increasing agricultural production for the empire. In all these regions, aspects of health worsened during imperial rule (e.g., higher rates of carious lesions, enamel hypoplasia, porotic hyperostosis, and osteoperiostitis); due, at least in part, to the missions' crowded living conditions and a decrease in diet quality (El-Najjar, 1976;El-Najjar et al, 1976;Hooton, 1930;Larsen et al, 2001;Walker, 1985;Walker et al, 1989).…”

The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience

“…Like the other systems, reducciónes were unsuccessful until the late nineteenth century . The number of true Catholic converts appears extremely limited and unlike other areas of the Spanish empire, the mission system was by and a large failure (Jackson 2000;Reff 1995;Wade 2008). Not until the Chilean army occupied the whole Araucanía in the late nineteenth century were the Mapuche placed on reducciónes, which were lands set aside based on lof and rehue traditional borders, rather than forced relocations (Dillehay, personal communication, 2011; see Chap.…”