Abstract
The Marianas iron trade, the earliest sustained cultural interaction and material exchange between Pacific Islanders and Europeans, extended from Magellan's 1521 visit to the 1668 Spanish mission. In a paradigm of cross-cultural exchange and technology appropriation, the trade represents a continuum of interaction that produced a structure and process for reliable access to a valued exogenous resource, which high-status Islanders integrated into their industries and reciprocity regimes. As the exchange (and related repatriation initiatives for sojourning clerics and galleon castaways) became a recurring, rewarding activity over several generations, it created conceptual categories for people previously unknown to each other, a related suite of values and attitudes, and corresponding behavioural and social adaptations. This ‘culture of culture contact’ generated dynamic Islander–Spanish intercourse, positive trade relationships and political entanglements which provided a receptive milieu for missionaries dedicated to social transformation and political consolidation under Spain's Patranado Real system of imperial expansion and administration.
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