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Author Curet, L. Antonio, 1960-

Title Islands at the Crossroads : Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (314 pages).
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Series Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory
Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Migration, seafaring, and cultural contact in the Caribbean / L. Antonio Curet and Mark W. Hauser -- 1. Irving Rouse's contribution to American archaeology : the case of migration / L. Antonio Curet -- 2. The ghost of Caliban : island archaelogy, insular archaeologists, and the Caribbean / Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo -- 3. Colonies without frontiers : inter-island trade in the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Caribbean / Mark W. Hauser and Kenneth G. Kelly -- 4. Patterns of contact between the islands of the Caribbean and the surrounding mainland as a navigation problem / Richard T. Callaghan -- 5. Ties with the homelands : archipelagic interaction and the enduring role of the south and central American mainlands in the pre-Colombian lesser Antilles / Corinne L. Hofman [and others] -- 6. Contraband in the Convento? Material indications of trade-relations in the Spanish colonies / Ingrid Marion Newquist -- 7. Good as gold : the aesthetic brilliance of the Lucayans / Mary Jane Berman -- 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 / Douglas V. Armstrong and Christian Williamson -- 9. Close encounters of the Caribbean kind / Reniel Rodríguez Ramos -- 10. Competitive polities and territorial expansion in the Caribbean / Peter E. Siegel -- 11. Islands at the crossroads : archaeology of interaction in the Caribbean / Mark W. Hauser and L. Antonio Curet.
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Subject Ethnology -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses.
Ethnology.
Caribbean Area.
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.
Manners and customs.
Caribbean Area -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
Emigration and immigration.
Caribbean Area -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Hauser, Mark W.
Armstrong, Douglas V.
Berman, Mary J.
Boomert, Arie.
Bright, Alistair J.
Callaghan, Richard T.
Curet, L. Antonio, 1960-
Hofman, Corinne L.
Hoogland, Menno L. P.
Kelly, Kenneth G.
Knippenberg, Sebastiaan.
Newquist, Ingrid Marion.
Rivera-Collazo, Isabel C.
Rodríguez Ramos, Reniel.
Samson, Alice V. M.
Siegel, Peter E.
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Other Form: Print version: 9780817356552
ISBN 9780817385378 (electronic book)
0817385371 (electronic book)
9780817317300 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0817317309 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780817356552 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
081735655X (paperback ; alkaline paper)