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Irving Rouse - Tainos, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

Tainos

Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus

Av Irving Rouse

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From a noted archeologist/anthropologist, the story of the Tainos—the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas—from their earliest days to their rapid decline after European contact"A model of clarity and lightly worn erudition, and it contains the best and most straightforward description of the four Columbus voyages and their implications for the Amerindians I have seen."—Kenneth Maxwell, New York Times Book ReviewDrawing on archeological and ethno-historical evidence, Irving Rouse sketches a picture of the Tainos as they existed during the time of Columbus, contrasting their customs with those of their neighbors. He then moves backward in time to the ancestors of the Tainos—two successive groups who settled the West Indies and who are known to archeologists as the Saladoid peoples and the Ostionoid peoples. By reconstructing the development of these groups and studying their interaction with other groups during the centuries before Columbus, Rouse shows precisely who the Tainos were. He vividly recounts Columbus's four voyages, the events of the European contact, and the early Spanish views of the Tainos, particularly their art and religion. The narration shows that the Tainos did not long survive the advent of Columbus. Weakened by forced labor, malnutrition, and diseases introduced by the foreigners, and dispersed by migration and intermarriage, they ceased to exist as a separate population group.As Rouse discusses the Tainos' contributions to the Spaniards—from Indian corn, tobacco, and rubber balls to art, artifacts, and new words—we realize that their effect on Western civilization, brief through their contact, was an important and lasting one.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1993-07-28
  • Mått: 156 x 235 x 17 mm
  • Vikt: 259 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Yale University Press
  • ISBN: 9780300056969
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Irving Rouse is Charles J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Yale University and Curator Emeritus of Anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.

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"A model of clarity and lightly worn erudition, and it contains the best and most straightforward description of the four Columbus voyages and their implications for the Amerindians I have seen. . . . Columbus had found large, permanent villages of Tainos Indians in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, each governed by a chief or cacique, and each containing an average of two thousand people. Rouse vividly describes their everyday life."—Kenneth Maxwell, New York Times Book Review"Rouse gives a vivid account of the origins, archaeology and history of these island people. . . . Building impressive 'ballcourts,' and worshiping deities called zemis, Taino culture bequeathed us many words and ideas that shaped European perceptions of the Americas. From them we derive our knowledge of cassava, pineapple, sweet potato and tobacco. This is a timely and comprehensive account of the first indigenous Americans to have greeted the European 'discoverers.'"—Nick Saunders, New Scientist"A welcome addition to the literature on the Caribbean region, this book is clearly and authoritatively presented by the noted anthropologist and archaeologist Irving Rouse. . . . A detailed survey of the region's cultural developments, it will be useful to both the archaeologist studying pre-literate societies, and the historian or anthropologist tracing the development of indigenous peoples following contact with the Spanish. The substantial bibliography will also be helpful to researchers."—British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America and the Caribbean"The Tainos is an historically important book. It is the culmination of half a century of research on a region whose archaeological complexity is compounded by the complexity of its political, social and linguistic diversity. . . . This book explicitly attempts to construct an understanding of the long history of those Native American populations which felt the first blows of European socio-economic expansion into the New World."—James A. Delle, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology"The best and most complete book on the Tainos by a scholar who has studied their culture all over the Greater Antilles for half a century."—Ricardo E. Alegría"We are fortunate indeed to have at last the authoritative and up-to-date account of the Taino Indians from the acknowledged dean of Taino scholars. And just in time so that we may remember them too during this Quincentennial year."—Kirkpatrick Sale"In view of the quincentenary of the voyages of Columbus this is a timely book. It is also a significant one, for it is the first major revision of Caribbean archaeology in English since 1935. No other American archaeologist is better suited to write such an encompassing volume."—David R. Watters

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