Vintage Moquegua : : History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery / / Prudence M. Rice.

The microhistory of the wine industry in colonial Moquegua, Peru, during the colonial period stretches from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, yielding a wealth of information about a broad range of fields, including early modern industry and labor, viniculture practices, the cultural symbo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (365 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction Contexts and Contextualizing
  • PART I Background and Deep Context
  • 2 Theory: Peripheries, Frontiers, Actors, and Innovations
  • 3 Core-Sate: Spain, Wine, and the Birth of Empire
  • 4 Periphery: Moquegua, Its Physical Environment, and Indigenous Peoples
  • PART II Actors and Institutions: Moquegua on the periphery of empire
  • 5 Following the actors, act 1: Discovery and Exploration
  • 6 Following the actors, act 2: Encomiendas, Encomenderos, and Founders
  • 7 Colonial institutions: Peripheral Transformations and Contested Identities
  • PART III Wine: the commodity
  • 8 Commerce: Wine in an Imperial Colonial Economy
  • 9 Production: Growing Grapes and Making Wine in Moquegua
  • 10 Liquid assets: A Historical Overview of Moquegua’s Wine Economy
  • PART IV Material Culture: objects as actors and agents
  • 11 Rural landscape and built environment
  • 12 Ceramics: Industrial and Domestic
  • 13 The structures of everyday life: Nonceramic Artifacts and Materials
  • PART V Concluding Synthesis: On the Frontier of a Periphery of an Empire
  • 14 Dichotomies versus mosaics
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index