7 Colonial institutions: Peripheral Transformations and Contested Identities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xvii
6. 1 Introduction Contexts and Contextualizing 1
7. PART I Background and Deep Context
8. 2 Theory: Peripheries, Frontiers, Actors, and Innovations 23
9. 3 Core-Sate: Spain, Wine, and the Birth of Empire 46
10. 4 Periphery: Moquegua, Its Physical Environment, and Indigenous Peoples 60
11. PART II Actors and Institutions: Moquegua on the periphery of empire
12. 5 Following the actors, act 1: Discovery and Exploration 77
13. 6 Following the actors, act 2: Encomiendas, Encomenderos, and Founders 94
14. 7 Colonial institutions: Peripheral Transformations and Contested Identities 114
15. PART III Wine: the commodity
16. 8 Commerce: Wine in an Imperial Colonial Economy 135
17. 9 Production: Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Moquegua 154
18. 10 Liquid assets: A Historical Overview of Moquegua’s Wine Economy 173
19. PART IV Material Culture: objects as actors and agents
20. 11 Rural landscape and built environment 191
21. 12 Ceramics: Industrial and Domestic 215
22. 13 The structures of everyday life: Nonceramic Artifacts and Materials 238
23. PART V Concluding Synthesis: On the Frontier of a Periphery of an Empire
24. 14 Dichotomies versus mosaics 261
25. Notes 285
26. References 293
27. Index 333