Rethinking Puerto Rican precolonial history / Reniel Rodriguez Ramos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez Ramos, Reniel.

Series:

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of the West Indies--Puerto Rico--Antiquities.

Indians of the West Indies.

Indians of the West Indies--Antiquities.

Archaeology and history--Puerto Rico.

Archaeology and history.

Puerto Rico--Antiquities.

Puerto Rico.

West Indies--Antiquities.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taíno were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the United States. The truth is more complex, but in many ways Puerto Rico remains one of the last colonies in the world. This volume focuses on the successive indigenous cultures of Puerto Rico prior to 1493. Traditional studies of the cultures of indigenous peoples of

Contents:

Introduction

Culture history : toward a revamped perspective

The method, the sample, the contexts

Discovery of Puerto Rico and the lifeways of its earliest inhabitants

Coming, going, and interacting : an alternative perspective on the "la hueca problem"

Horizontal diversification in Puerto Rico : the forging of new identities

The intensification of regional political integration

Putting it all together.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8327-1

OCLC:

664233652