By Martha McCollough
A radical exploration of the adjustments skilled by way of the Comanches and Caddoans in the course of Spain's profession of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough makes a speciality of the connection among political and financial stipulations and styles of cost, construction and social copy. tough old perspectives that constitution a dichotomy of the colonizers and the colonized, this examine examines worldwide, local and native populations because it information the issues of interface among Euro-American markets, local American commodities and indigenous social teams during this early colonial interval.
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As ethnographers and archeologists have discovered, production for the purpose of exchange exists under numerous economic systems. In addition, the exchange that occurs is often one-sided. For example, systems of prestige and bridewealth as well as other types of kinship and tribute organizations can create production for exchange (Amin 1989; Godelier 1972; Schneider 1977, 1978; Smith 1976, 1985). Each of these formations causes specific kinds of exchange relations that unify an area in a particular way.
WORLD SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE 47 In addition to these anxieties, the French also worried about the rapid expansion of England’s colonial population. By 1714, British officials enumerated over 250,000 colonists in America (Priestly 1939: 155). To counteract the Huguenots, English settlers, and Spanish interests in the lower Mississippi Valley, France began to pursue a more active policy in the region. In 1684, France granted funding for La Salle’s short-lived colony on the Texas coast. After this failure, France, continually short of money, sold titles to the aristocracy and gave trading monopolies to private investors in order to accelerate settlement in the region (Priestly 1939:145).
For example, Wallace and Hoebel explained that the Comanche band was strikingly similar in organization to the aboriginal Shoshonean groups of the Great Basin in the days preceding white contact. It ranged in size from a single family alone to the small camp of related individuals…to large groups of several hundred people. (Wallace and Hoebel 1952:22–23) Among the Comanches, the family, often composed of extended kin, acted as the basic social unit (Wallace and Hoebel 1952:23). Each of these families linked with a few others in order to form ETHNOHISTORIC INTERPRETATIONS 31 loosely organized bands.
