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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827500903321

Titolo

Islands at the crossroads : migration, seafaring, and interaction in the Caribbean / / edited by L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8173-8537-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Altri autori (Persone)

CuretL. Antonio <1960->

HauserMark W

Disciplina

305.8009729

Soggetti

Ethnology - Caribbean Area

Ethnoarchaeology - Caribbean Area

Ethnohistory - Caribbean Area

Seafaring life - Caribbean Area

Acculturation - Caribbean Area

Caribbean Area Social life and customs Congresses

Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration Congresses

Caribbean Area Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally presented at a session of the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Migration, Seafaring, and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean; I. Peoples and Boundaries: Systematics and the Practice of Caribbean Archaeology; 1. Irving Rouse's Contribution to American Archaeology: The Case of Migration; 2. The Ghost of Caliban: Island Archaeology, Insular Archaeologists, and the Caribbean; 3. Colonies without Frontiers: Inter-island Trade in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Caribbean; II. Tracing Exchange: Intensitiesand Scales of Interaction

4. Patterns of Contact between the Islands of the Caribbean and the Surrounding Mainland as a Navigation Problem 5. Ties with the Homelands: Archipelagic Interaction and the Enduring Role of the South and Central American Mainlands in the Pre- Columbian Lesser Antilles; 6. Contraband in the Convento? : Material Indications of Trade



Relations in the Spanish Colonies; 7. Good as Gold: The Aesthetic Brilliance of the Lucayans; III. Redefining Boundaries through Social Interaction

8. The Magens House, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: Archaeology of an Urban House Compound and Its Relationship to Local Interactions and Global Trade 9. Close Encounters of the Caribbean Kind; 10. Competitive Polities and Territorial Expansion in the Caribbean; 11. Islands at the Crossroads: Archaeology of Interaction in the Caribbean; References; List of Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Islands at the Crossroads: Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)