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UNINA9910465262003321 |
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Out of many, one people [[electronic resource] ] : the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica / / edited by James A. Delle, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2011 |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DelleJames A |
HauserMark W |
ArmstrongDouglas V |
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Archaeology and history - Jamaica |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Jamaica |
Historic sites - Jamaica |
Material culture - Jamaica - History |
Plantation life - Jamaica - History |
Slaves - Jamaica - Social life and customs |
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Jamaica Antiquities |
Jamaica History, Local |
Jamaica Social life and customs |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Historical archaeology in Jamaica / Mark W. Hauser, James A. Delle, and Douglas V. Armstrong -- pt. 1. The archaeology of the early colonial period -- Feudalism or agrarian capitalism? : the archaeology of the early sixteenth-century Spanish sugar industry / Robyn P. Woodward -- Port Royal and Jamaica : wrought-iron hand tools recovered as archaeological evidence and the material culture mentioned in probate inventories ca. 1692 / Marianne Franklin -- Evidence for Port Royal's British colonial merchant class as reflected in the New Street Tavern Site assemblage / Maureen J. Brown -- pt. 2. The archaeology of the plantation system -- Reflections on Seville : |
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rediscovering the African Jamaican settlements at Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay / Douglas V. Armstrong -- Maritime connections in a plantation economy : archaeological investigations of a colonial sloop in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica / Gregory D. Cook and Amy Rubenstein-Gottschamer -- The habitus of Jamaican plantation landscapes / James A. Delle -- Excavating the roots of resistance : the significance of Maroons in Jamaican archaeology / Candice Goucher and Kofi Agorsah -- pt. 3. The archaeology of Jamaican society -- Of earth and clay : locating colonial economies and local ceramics / Mark W. Hauser -- Household market activities among early nineteenth-century Jamaican slaves : an archaeological case study from two slave settlements / Matthew Reeves -- Assessing the impacts of time, agricultural cycles, and demography on the consumer activities of enslaved men and women in eighteenth-century Jamaica and Virginia / Jillian E. Galle-- Identity and opportunity in post-slavery Jamaica / Kenneth G. Kelly, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong -- Epilogue: Explorations in Jamaican historical archaeology / Douglas V. Armstrong. |
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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 parts of the world have coexisted in and reacted against systems of inequality, Jamaica has long been a major focus of archaeological studies of the colonial period. This volume assembles for the first time the results of nearly three decades of historical archaeolo |
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UNINA9910781985103321 |
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New directions in colour studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Carole P. Biggam ... [et al.] |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011 |
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1-283-31481-9 |
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90-272-8485-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (474 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BiggamC. P <1946-> (Carole Patricia) |
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Color vision |
Color |
Semiotics |
Language and culture |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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New Directions in Colour Studies; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Section 1.Theoretical issues; Illusions of colour and shadow; Universal trends and specific deviations; Touchy-Feely colour; Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman; Section 2. Languages of the world; Preface to Section 2; Basic colour terms of Arabic; Red herrings in a sea of data; Towards a diachrony of Maltese basic colour terms; Rosa Schätze - Pink zum kaufen; Kashubian colour vocabulary; Colour terms |
Preliminary research on Turkish basic colour terms with an emphasis on blueTerms for red in Central Europe; Section 3. Colour in society; Preface to Section 3; Colours in the community; Hues and cries; Colour appearance in urban chromatic studies; Aspects of armorial colours and their perception in medieval literature; Warm, cool, light, dark, or afterimage; The power of colour term precision; Categorical perception of colour; Preface to Section 4; Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the event-related potential technique |
Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right |
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visual fieldEffects of stimulus range on color categorization; Section 5. Individual differences in colour vision; Preface to Section 5; Colour and autism spectrum disorders; Red-Green dichromats' use of basic colour terms; Synaesthesia in colour; Towards a phonetically-rich account of speech-sound ? colour synaesthesia; Perceiving "grue"; Section 6. Colour preference and colour meaning; Preface to Section 6; Age-dependence of colour preference in the U.K. population; Ecological valence and human color preference |
Look and learnEffects of lightness and saturation on color associations in the Mexican population; Colour and emotion; Colors and color adjectives in the cortex; Section 7. Colour vision science; Preface to Section 7; Chromatic perceptual learning; Unique hues; A short note on visual balance judgements as a tool for colour appearance matching; Index |
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Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of aspects of colour categorization, perception and preference. The chapters have been developed from papers and posters presented at a conference on Progress in Colour Studies (PICS08) held at the University of Glasgow. The volume both updates research reported at the earlier PICS04 conference (publishe |
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