Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- 1 • Historical Dynamics in the Contact Era.- II. Theoretical Orientations on Culture Contact.- 2 • Structure and History: Combining Archaeology and Ethnohistory in the Contact Period Caribbean.- 3 • The Persistence of an Explanatory Dilemma in Contact Period Studies.- III. North America: Encounters with Villagers and Chiefdoms.- 4 • Stone Tools, Steel Tools: Contact Period Household Technology at Helo’.- 5 • The Social and Material Implications of Culture Contact on the Northern Plains.- 6 • Kee-Oh-Na-Wah’-Wah: The Effects of European Contact on the Caddoan Indians of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.- 7 • Economic and Adaptive Change among the Lake Superior Chippewa of the Nineteenth Century.- 8 • Historic Creek Indian Responses to European Trade and the Rise of Political Factions.- 9 • Assessing the Significance of European Goods in Seventeenth-Century Narragansett Society.- IV. Mesoamerica: Encounters with States.- 10 • Socioeconomic Change within Native Society in Colonial Soconusco, New Spain.- 11 • The Living Pay for the Dead: Trade, Exploitation, and Social Change in Early Colonial Izalco, El Salvador.- 12 • Urban and Rural Dimensions of the Contact Period: Central Mexico, 1521–1620.- V. Conclusion.- Afterword.