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Traditional political economy has a number of limitations that make it ill-suited for exploring the nuances of cultural communication in colonial cultural contexts, and for elucidating the specific ways in which meaning is produced within the dialectics of power. Following the pragmatic turn in archaeology, this paper suggests a revaluation of the political economy of early modern slavery, describing and employing aesthetic and semiotic tools to render the processes of enslaved subject formation, meaning-making and quotidian conditions within the 17th- and 18th-century institution of the Jesuit hacienda through recent archaeological explorations at two Jesuit vineyards in Nasca, Peru.
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This page is a summary of: Rethinking the political economy of slavery: the hacienda aesthetic at the Jesuit vineyards of Nasca, Peru, Post-Medieval Archaeology, January 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00794236.2018.1461330.
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