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The Indigenous people of the Caribbean / edited by Samuel M. Wilson. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ripley P. Bullen series
- The Ripley P. Bullen series The indigenous people of the Caribbean
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of the West Indies.
- Indians of the West Indies--Antiquities.
- Caribbean Area--Antiquities.
- Caribbean Area.
- West Indies--Antiquities.
- West Indies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 253 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This volume brings together nineteen Caribbean specialists to produce the first general introduction to the indigenous peoples of that region. Writing for both general and academic audiences, contributors provide an authoritative, up-to-date picture of these fascinating peoples - their social organization, religion, language, lifeways, and contribution to the culture of their modern descendants - in what is ultimately a comprehensive reader on Caribbean archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnology."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction to the study of the indigenous people of the Caribbean / Samuel M. Wilson
- The study of aboriginal peoples / Ricardo Alegría
- The Lesser Antilles before Columbus / Louis Allaire
- The biological impacts of 1492 / Richard L. Cunningham
- The Salt River site, St. Croix, at the time of the encounter / Birgit Faber Morse
- European views of the aboriginal population / Alissandra Cummins
- Settlement strategies in the Early Ceramic Age / Jay B. Hauiser
- The ceramics, art and material culture of the Early Ceramic Period in the Caribbean Islands / Elizabeth Righter
- Religious beliefs of the Saladoid people / Miguel Rodríguez
- Maritime trade in the prehistoric eastern Caribbean / David R. Watters
- Notes on ancient Caribbean art and mythology / Henry Petitjean Roget
- "No man, or woman, is an island" : elements of Taino social organization / William F. Keegan
- Taino, Island Carib, and prehistoric Amerindian economies in the West Indies / James B. Petersen
- The material culture of the Taino Indians / Ignacio Olazagasti
- The Taino cosmos / José R. Oliver
- Some observations on the Taino language / Arnold R. Highfield
- The Taino vision / Henry Petitjean Roget
- The Caribs of the Lesser Antilles / Louis Allaire
- Language and gender among the Kalinago of Fifteenth-century St. Croix / Vincent O. Cooper
- The Garifuna of Central America / Nancie L. Gonzalez.
- The legacy of the indigenous people of the Caribbean / Samuel M. Wilson
- Five hundred years of indigenous resistance / Garnette Joseph.
- Notes:
- "Organized by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-2350-5
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