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

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8009729
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Caribbean Area; Ethnoarchaeology - Caribbean Area; Ethnohistory - Caribbean Area; Seafaring life - Caribbean Area; Acculturation - Caribbean Area
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Social life and customs Congresses; Caribbean Area Emigration and immigration Congresses; Caribbean Area Antiquities Congresses
• Altri autori: CuretL. Antonio <1960-> HauserMark W
• 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)
• Titolo autorizzato: Islands at the crossroads
• ISBN: 0-8173-8537-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827500903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.