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An ARTery of EMPIRE. Conquest, Commerce, Crisis, Culture and the Panamanian Junction (1513-1671)

Descrizione del progetto

Esplorare l’eredità della globalizzazione a Panama antica

Situata nel punto di incontro tra quattro continenti, Panama antica, uno stretto passaggio istmico che collega l’oceano Atlantico con quello Pacifico, è stata testimone di una complessa rete di contatti culturali e commerciali. Il progetto ArtEmpire, finanziato dall’UE, utilizzerà un approccio interdisciplinare per svelare i diversi impatti esercitati da fattori quali incursioni europee, schiavi africani, merci asiatiche e alleanze indigene durante la prima globalizzazione. Adottando metodologie storiche, archeologiche e archeometriche, questa iniziativa metterà in discussione le narrazioni prevalenti e offrirà nuovi spunti di riflessione sulle conseguenze culturali, biologiche ed economiche di questo snodo cruciale. Mediante l’esplorazione dell’eredità materiale di Panama antica, il progetto mira a ridefinire la nostra comprensione dell’interconnessione e delle strategie di sopravvivenza delle diverse popolazioni che hanno dato forma a questo sito storico.

Obiettivo

European incursions onto the narrow isthmian pass that divided and connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans made it a strategic node of the Spanish Empire and a crucial site for early modern globalization. On the front lines of the convergence of four continents, Old Panama offers an unusual opportunity for examining the diverse, often asymmetrical impacts of cultural and commercial contacts. The role of Italian, Portuguese, British, Dutch, and French interests in the area, as well as an influx of African slaves and Asian merchandise, have left a unique material legacy that requires an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to its varied sources. Bones, teeth and artifacts on this artery of Empire offer the possibility of new insights into the cultural and biological impact of early globalization. They also invite an interdisciplinary approach to different groups’ tactics for survival, including possible dietary changes, and the pursuit of profit. Such strategies may have led the diverse peoples inhabiting this junction, from indigenous allies to African and Asian bandits to European corsairs, to develop and to favor local production and Pacific trade networks at the expense of commerce with the metropolis.
This project applies historical, archaeological and archaeometric methodologies to evidence of encounters between peoples and goods from Europe, America, Africa and Asia that took place on the Isthmus of Panama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Forging an interdisciplinary approach to early globalization, it challenges both Euro-centric and Hispano-phobic interpretations of the impact of the conquest of America, traditionally seen as a demographic catastrophe that reached its nadir in the so-called seventeenth-century crisis. Rather than applying quantitative methods to incomplete source material, researchers will adopt a contextualized, inter-disciplinary, qualitative approach to diverse agents involved in cultural and commercial exchange.

Meccanismo di finanziamento

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Istituzione ospitante

UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 264 528,64
Indirizzo
CARRETERA DE UTRERA KM 1
41013 Sevilla
Spagna

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Regione
Sur Andalucía Sevilla
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 264 528,64

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