Archaeologists working from a postcolonial framework are increasingly examining how the politics of Indigenous societies in North America structured European colonialism on the continent. Understanding the cultural landscapes of Indigenous societies is one part of this process, and the logics of colonial attempts to organize and control this space is a necessary counterpoint in the dialectic of colonial encounters. Social network analysis (SNA) can be applied to both Indigenous and colonial social organizations to understand how network organization influenced colonial encounters. As a case study, we compare the imagined colonial organization of early seventeenth-century Spanish missionization among the Pueblos of New Mexico with eighteenth-century missionization in the Pimería Alta of Arizona and Sonora. Network analysis is applied to documentary evidence to evaluate the idealized structure of Spanish mission systems in both regions as missionaries imagined it. The network qualities of missionary orders proved extremely resilient. Basic network qualities remained, enduring revolts and bureaucratic changeover. The results highlight how a simple and replicable structure was an adaptation to the unpredictable colonial borderlands. These case studies offer a template for the study of cultural landscapes through SNA and modeling the hidden mechanisms of colonialism.

在后殖民框架下工作的考古学家越来越多地研究北美土著社会的政治如何构建欧洲大陆上的殖民主义。了解原住民社会的文化景观是这一过程的一部分，而殖民主义试图组织和控制这一空间的逻辑是殖民遭遇辩证法的必要对比。社会网络分析 (SNA) 可应用于土著和殖民社会组织，以了解网络组织如何影响殖民遭遇。作为案例研究，我们将 17 世纪早期西班牙传教士在新墨西哥州普韦布洛人想象中的殖民组织与 18 世纪亚利桑那州和索诺拉州皮梅里亚阿尔塔的传教士进行了比较。网络分析被应用于文件证据，以评估两个地区的西班牙传教士系统的理想化结构，正如传教士所想象的那样。传教士团的网络特性被证明具有极强的弹性。基本的网络素质仍然存在，经受住了反抗和官僚主义的转变。结果突出了一个简单且可复制的结构如何适应不可预测的殖民边界。这些案例研究为通过 SNA 研究文化景观和模拟殖民主义的隐藏机制提供了模板。结果突出了一个简单且可复制的结构如何适应不可预测的殖民边界。这些案例研究为通过 SNA 研究文化景观和模拟殖民主义的隐藏机制提供了模板。结果突出了一个简单且可复制的结构如何适应不可预测的殖民边界。这些案例研究为通过 SNA 研究文化景观和模拟殖民主义的隐藏机制提供了模板。