Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since
prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later,
Spaniards, French, and Anglo-Americans met, fought, and
collaborated with one another in this border area stretching from
Texas through southern California. To explore the region's complex
past from prehistory to the U.S. takeover, this book uses an
unusual multidisciplinary approach. In interviews with ten experts,
Deborah and Jon Lawrence discuss subjects ranging from warfare
among the earliest ancestral Puebloans to intermarriage and peonage
among Spanish settlers and the Indians they encountered. The
scholars interviewed form a distinguished array of archaeologists,
anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and historians: Juliana Barr,
Brian DeLay, Richard and Shirley Flint, John Kessell, Steven
LeBlanc, Mark Santiago, Polly Schaafsma, David J. Weber, and
Michael Wilcox. All speak forthrightly about complex and
controversial issues, and they do so with minimal academic jargon
and temporizing, bringing the most reliable information to bear on
every subject they discuss. Themes the authors address include the
origin and scope of conflicts between ethnic groups and the extent
of accommodation, cooperation, and cross-cultural adaptation that
also ensued. Seven interviews explore how Indians forced colonizers
to modify their behavior. All of the experts explain how they deal
with incomplete or biased sources to achieve balanced
interpretations. As the authors point out, no single discipline
provides a complete, accurate historical picture. Spanish documents
must be sifted for political and ideological distortion, the
archaeological record is incomplete, and oral traditions erode and
become corrupted over time. By assembling the most articulate
practitioners of all three approaches, the authors have produced a
book that will speak to general readers as well as scholars and
students in a variety of fields.
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