Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series – serie
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Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
Inbunden, 2015
701 kr
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In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century “Atlantic Economy,” comprising early …
Archaeology Below the Cliff
Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society
Inbunden, 2019
701 kr
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First book-length archaeological study of a nonelite white population on a Caribbean plantation. Archaeology below the Cliff: Race, Class, and Redlegs in Barbadian Sugar Society is the first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European …
Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean
Contextualizing Sites Through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism
Av Todd M. Ahlman, Gerald F. Schroedl
Inbunden, 2019
759 kr
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A new perspective on Caribbean historical archaeology that goes beyond the colonial plantation.Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, …
Real, Recent, or Replica
Precolumbian Caribbean Heritage As Art, Commodity, and Inspiration
Av Joanna Ostapkowicz, Jonathan A. Hanna
Inbunden, 2021
817 kr
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Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials Real, Recent, or Replica: PrecolumbianCaribbean Heritage as Art, Commodity, and Inspiration is the first book-length study of its kind to …
Archaeology of Tibes
Life, Death, and Memory at an Early Ceremonial Center in the Caribbean
Av L. Antonio Curet, Lisa M. Stringer
Inbunden, 2024
1275 kr
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Brings Caribbean archaeology in line with current thinking about social stratification and repositions the role of archaeology to uncover smaller-scale daily lives of ancient peoples rather than focusing on the large-scale chiefdoms.
Nature of an Ancient Maya City
Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize
Häftad, 2007
339 kr
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This work is a comprehensive study of a unique Maya site offering the full range of undisturbed architectural features. For two millennia, the site now known as Blue Creek in northwestern Belize was a Maya community that became an economic and political center that included some 15,000-20,000 …
Pre-Columbian Jamaica
2008
552 kr
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This title presents a comprehensive document on the prehistory of Jamaica, and a resource base for future research.Much of Jamaican prehistoric research - like that in the rest of the Caribbean basin - has been guided by at least a subconscious attempt to allow prehistoric native peoples to find …
Archaeology and Geoinformatics
Case Studies from the Caribbean
Häftad, 2008
396 kr
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This book contains tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers. Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto …
Talking Taino
Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective
Av William F. Keegan, Lisabeth A. Carlson
Häftad, 2008
339 kr
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Talking Taino combines more than 45 years that the authors spent conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas. …
Heritage or Heresy
Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera
Häftad, 2009
281 kr
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How can we effectively interpret and present one culture to another without stereotypes or over-simplifications? What is the best way to present an authoritative version of a national heritage without also endangering ancient sites or being insensitive to the local customs, beliefs, and religious …
Caciques and Cemi Idols
The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Häftad, 2009
454 kr
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Cemis are both portable artifacts and embodiments of persons or spirits, which the Tainos and other natives of the Greater Antilles (ca. AD 1000-1550) regarded as numinous beings with super-natural or magic powers. This volume takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other …
Rock Art of the Caribbean
Av Michele H. Hayward, Lesley-Gail Atkinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
396 kr
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This compilation, by an international grouping of scholars, focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition. Thorough and comparative, it includes data on the history of rock graphic research, the nature of the …
Myths and Realities of Caribbean History
Häftad, 2009
223 kr
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This book seeks to debunk eleven popular and prevalent myths about Caribbean history. Using archaeological evidence, it corrects many previous misconceptions promulgated by history books and oral tradition as they specifically relate to the pre-Colonial and European-contact periods. It informs …
Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands
Häftad, 2009
413 kr
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Originally published as the ""Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907"", this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing 'more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the …
Tibes
People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos
Av The University of Alabama Press, L. Antonio Curet
Häftad, 2009
454 kr
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The prehistoric civic-ceremonial center of Tibes is located on the southern coast of Puerto Rico, just north of the modern coastal city of Ponce. Protected on two sides by a river, and on the other two sides by hills, this approximately 10.5 acre site remains as fertile and productive today as when …
Beyond the Blockade
New Currents in Cuban Archaeology
Av Susan Kepecs, L. Antonio Curet m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
273 kr
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This innovative volume builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues. The chapters included herein span a wide range of subjects across the full chronological spectrum. Most were …
Out of Many, One People
The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
Av James A. Delle, Mark W. Hauser m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
396 kr
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As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has hosted and the multitude of ways in which diverse people from varied …
Islands at the Crossroads
Migration, Seafaring and Interaction in the Caribbean
Av L. Antonio Curet, Mark W. Hauser
Häftad, 2011
385 kr
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The contributors to Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and layered ways in which both distant and more intimate sociocultural, political, and economic …
Surviving Spanish Conquest
Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Häftad, 2022
339 kr
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Reveals the transformation that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550In Surviving Spanish Conquest: Indian Fight, Flight, and Cultural Transformation in Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, Karen F. Anderson-CÓrdova draws on …
