Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

Diachronically oriented anthropologists have long studied the consequences of culture contact and the impact of previously separated cultural systems upon the structures and functions of each other. Colonization forms an important subset of such interactions (see, for example, Lightfoot 1995; Lightfoot and Martinet 1995). Relatively less attention has been paid to the effects of the commencement of colonization on societies lying outside of newly established colonial systems. This is such a case and and looks to understand it from several theoretical perspectives.