De/Colonization in the Americas: Continuity and Change / De/Colonización en las Américas: Cambios y continuidades (Inter-American Studies / Estudios Interamericanos)

In the Americas, colonialism informs nearly all aspects of life. From European invasion onward it established a durable matrix of power based on gender relations, racism and ethnic classifications that defined white and criollo male superiority over the indigenous and ‘Afro American’ as well as over Asian, Jewish, Arabic, Muslim and Hindu populations, peoples and nations, in spite of the ambiguity of ethnic and racial frontiers. Moreover, in recent times, the thrust to decolonize has become a major aspiration that implies the rescue and re-evaluation of native and subordinated cultures. Colonialism has deeply informed cultural production and popular culture in the Americas. Jazz, blues, rock music and hip-hop have given voice to the experience of ethnic and racial exclusion and Latin America’s boom literature is informed by ‘magic’ indigenous-colonial cosmovisions. Ethnic and racial struggles against quota systems and/or auto-ethnographic media productions are integral parts of the fight against the negative aspects of the colonial legacy. This volume adopts a broad concept of colonialism, which refers not only to a specific historical period but also to a relational mode that creates asymmetric power relations and modes of exploitation that persist and that are constantly renewed but also contested. Rather than trying to give a comprehensive account of colonial and decolonial dynamics, this collection illustrates the centrality of colonialism in the history of the Americas and the wide range of areas in which decolonizing efforts and postcolonial processes continue to impact the Western Hemisphere. CONTENTS HEIDRUN MÖRTL, JOSEF RAAB, AND OLAF KALTMEIER Introduction: Colonialism, Coloniality, and Decolonization in the Americas ………….. 1 I. COLONIALISM/COLONIALISMO DONNA J. NASH Moving to a New Place: The Archaeological Study of Migration in the Ancient Andes …………………………………………………………………………………….. 25 OLAF KALTMEIER “Para que quede memoria del y de los dichos sus serbizios”― Un escudo de armas para el cacique Sancho Hacho: Comunicación político-visual en el entrecruzamiento del temprano Estado colonial en Ecuador ……………………….. 45 INES LINKE In Search of the New World: (Re)inventing Bahia ……………………………………………. 59 RUTH Y. HSU Rousseau and Emile in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Brazil-Maru: The Intertexts of Colonies, Utopia, and Freedom ……………………………………………… 75 ROBERT KEITH COLLINS Toward an Inter-American Study of African Transculturalization in Native America ………………………………………………………………………………………… 91 JOSEF RAAB Colonial and Decolonial Thinking: Race Discourses in Literatures of the Americas ………………………………………………. 103 II. COLONIALITY/COLONIALIDAD OLGA RIES El mestizaje como trauma: sexualidad y violencia en los discursos (supra)nacionales en Sudamérica en el siglo XIX ……………………………………………. 121 ROCÍO ROSERO JÁCOME Montalvo el disidente y Mera el resistente: Discursos críticos sobre religión y política en el Ecuador, 1860-1890 ………………… 135 BÁRBARA SILVA The Virgin and the Observatory: Astronomy, Modernity, and the U.S. Mills Expedition in Chile ………………………………………………………….. 149 MATTHEW N. JOHNSTON Native Spirituality and Cultural Development in Adolph Bandelier’s Ethnological Research in the U.S. Southwest …………………………………………………. 163 MELISSA KNOX Alexandra Fuller’s Americas: Emerging from Coloniality ……………………………….. 183 ANTONIELLE PINHEIRO DA CUNHA Rupturas en la colonialidad: la transición agroecológica en la Zona de la Mata de Pernambuco, Brasil …………………………………………………………………. 197 MARCELO BOGADO Negociación del espacio legítimo en comunidades indígenas del Área Metropolitana de Asunción ………………………………………………………………….. 213 ULISES ZARAZÚA VILLASEÑOR Visiones de adentro y de afuera: la situación del Campamento Purhépecha en Zapopan ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 231 III. DECOLONIZATION/DESCOLONIZACIÓN MARTÍN LIENHARD Movimiento indio, elites indígenas y literaturas amerindias ……………………………… 249 MALELY LINARES SANCHEZ Las raíces de la larga duración en las resistencias indígenas colombianas: Desafiando la Hidra, tejiendo las autonomías …………………………………………………. 267 DOROTHEA GAIL Andean Music Bands Abroad: Colonizing the flâneur of the West ……………………. 287 REBECCA ELENA BERGER Decolonizing the Image of ‘La Malinche’: The Transculturation of a Colonial Mexican Icon to U.S. Latino Culture via Twenty-first Century Latino Art …………. 303 MARÍA HERRERA-SOBEK The Two Guadalupes: Sacred Folk Narratives and Cultural Reformatting in the Colonization/Decolonization Project of New Spain ………………………………… 319 GEORGE LIPSITZ Race, Place, and the Decolonial Imaginary …………………………………………………….. 331 CONTRIBUTORS ………………………………………………………………………………………….. 343