The Strange Bedfellows of Northern Belize: British Colonialists, Confederate Dreamers, Creole Loggers, and the Caste War Maya of the Late Nineteenth Century

International Journal of Historical Archaeology - Tập 23 - Trang 172-203 - 2018
Eleanor Harrison-Buck1, Brett A. Houk2, Adam R. Kaeding1, Brooke Bonorden3
1Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
2Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
3SWCA Environmental Consultants, San Antonio, USA

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Following the U.S. Civil War, groups of ex-Confederates arrived in Belize as clashes with Caste War Maya reached their peak, resulting in more frequent Maya raiding of British and Creole logging camps. Cross-examining ethnohistoric and archaeological data from Maya, ex-Confederate, Creole, and British sites in northern Belize, we aim to better understand the distinct identities and myriad relationships of these odd bedfellows. The colonizers (British and ex-Confederates) had divergent agendas, but each used limited supplies of Euro-American imports, namely guns and tobacco products, in the remote colonial frontier to form powerful economic dependencies with Maya and Creole groups.

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