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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curet, L. Antonio, 1960-

Hauser, Mark W.

Society for American Archaeology. Meeting 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)

Series:

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Caribbean Area--Congresses.

Ethnology.

Ethnoarchaeology--Caribbean Area--Congresses.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Ethnohistory--Caribbean Area--Congresses.

Ethnohistory.

Seafaring life--Caribbean Area--Congresses.

Seafaring life.

Acculturation--Caribbean Area--Congresses.

Acculturation.

Caribbean Area--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Caribbean Area.

Caribbean Area--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.

Caribbean Area--Antiquities--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8537-1

OCLC:

772845342