COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　A unique comparative study of colonial encounters between the
Spanish in New Mexico and the Dutch in New York.
　　Nan A. Rothschild examines the process of colonialism in two
separate areas of 17th-century North America seeking to answer
several key questions: Where did each group live vis-à-vis the
other? How entangled were their respective material cultures? How
did these situations change over time? What was the nature and
extent of their economic relationships? She points out that
colonialism has been greatly understudied, is highly variable, and
that the comparison of different case studies can bring new
understanding to the details of each case and to understanding
variation in colonial processes at large. The book transcends
simple comparisons because of its strong grounding in the
theoretical literature of colonialism.
　　New data from many different sources are brought together here,
including much that is only available in unpublished reports, site
files, and archives. Using a framework that considers landscapes,
goods, labor, exchange, and identity, Rothschild’s approach
provides a breadth to the comparison that underscores similarities
and differences. This has not been attempted before in either
strictly historical or archaeological work on these two areas and
makes her book unique.

　　Nan A. Rothschild is the Ann Whitney Olin professor of
anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. This is her
fourth book.