Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Curet, L. Antonio, 1960-
• Hauser, Mark W.
• Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (71st : 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)

Description

xi, 314 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Uniform Title

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Subject

• Ethnology > Congresses
• Ethnoarchaeology > Congresses
• Ethnohistory > Caribbean Area > Congresses
• Seafaring life > Caribbean Area > Congresses
• Acculturation > Congresses
• Caribbean Area > Social life and customs > Congresses
• Caribbean Area > Emigration and immigration > Congresses
• Caribbean Area > Antiquities > Congresses

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• 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 ... [et al.] -- 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

Call Number

JHE 12-244

ISBN

• 9780817356552 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 081735655X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780817385378 (electronic)
• 0817385371 (electronic)
• 9780817317300 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0817317309 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011010447

OCLC

YBP 2011010447

Title

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

Imprint

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

Series

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory

Caribbean archaeology and ethnohistory.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Curet, L. Antonio, 1960-

Hauser, Mark W.

Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (71st : 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)

Research Call Number

JHE 12-244