Coloniality in Patagonia: historical archaeology and postcolonial critique in Latin America

Abstract

In recent years, the colonial expansion of modern society has been studied by various disciplines and from a range of theoretical perspectives. South American historical archaeologists in particular have highlighted the homogenizing nature of this global process in order to re-evaluate the particular nature of different contexts in time and space. This paper focuses on the articulation between the scales of the global and the local and explores the role of local processes in the constitution of colonial societies. Latin-American postcolonial theory – or decolonized thinking – adds to this debate through the critical assessment of modernity in order to acknowledge colonial legacies in the social sciences. This perspective is presented here in combination with a case study from the Spanish colonization of the Patagonian coast in the late eighteenth century, in particular the settlement of Nueva Población y Colonia de Floridablanca (Bahía San Julián, province of Santa Cruz, Argentina).

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