Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData Theses and Dissertations 10-21-2015 Resistance, the Church, and a Comparison of Ceramics from Sixteenth-Century Caluco, El Salvador Alison Denise Hodges Illinois State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd Part of the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Hodges, Alison Denise, "Resistance, the Church, and a Comparison of Ceramics from Sixteenth-Century Caluco, El Salvador" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 483. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/483 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. RESISTANCE, THE CHURCH, AND A COMPARISON OF CERAMICS FROM SIXTEENTH-CENTURY CALUCO, EL SALVADOR Alison D. Hodges 154 Pages This thesis examines ceramics from the church of San Pedro y San Pablo, Caluco, El Salvador, to investigate the pressures of Spanish evangelization during the Colonial Period. It compares the church’s ceramic assemblage to two privately-owned houses, also within Caluco. Examining choices in ceramic styles for serving food and drink is one way to examine the colonial policies of reducción, which were to instill a regular, commonplace Christian order in everyday life. The materials in question were a large number of Spanish majolicas, as well as 300 locally-made vessels, and form, decoration, and ware was noted for each. The relative importance of majolica versus majolica attributes on indigenous-made pottery shows that practices in the shadow of the church were distinct from those farther away.