Search Results for caribbean

...Terry Rugeley Talking Taíno: Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective . By Keegan William F. and Carlson Lisabeth A. . ( Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press , 2008 . xv + 136 pp., introduction, maps, photographs, appendixes, bibliography, index . $49.75 cloth...

...David C. LaFevor Media, Sound, and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean . Edited by Bronfman Alejandra and Wood Andrew Grant . Pitt Latin American series . ( Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press , 2012 . xvi + 169 pp., introduction, notes, index . $24.00 paper...

.... Schuyler, Robert L. 1988 Archaeological Remains, Documents, and Anthropology: A Call for a New Culture History. Historical Archaeology 22 : 36 -42. Review Essays Recent Books in the Historical Archaeology of Latin America and the Caribbean Rani T. Alexander, New Mexico State University...

...Terry Rugeley Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing . Edited by Paton Diana and Forde Maarit . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . 354 pp., foreword, acknowledgments, introduction, afterword . $27.95 paper.) Copyright 2015...

...Lomarsh Roopnarine The Migration of Peoples from the Caribbean to the Bahamas . By Tinker Keith L. . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2011 . x + 199 pp., preface, introduction, bibliography, index . $69.95 cloth.) Copyright 2016 by American Society for Ethnohistory...

...Matthew Casey Subjects or Citizens: British Caribbean Workers in Cuba, 1900–1960 . By Whitney Robert and Laffita Graciela Chailloux . ( Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2013 . x + 238 pp., introduction, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index . $74.95 cloth...

...Patsy Lewis The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory . By Puri Shalini . ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2014 . xiv+341 pp., preface, introduction, works cited, permissions, index . $110.00 hardcover.) Copyright 2016 by American Society...

...Thomas C. Anderson [email protected] Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean . By Erin Woodruff Stone . ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2021 . 288 pp., 6 b/w. $49.95 hardcover.). Copyright 2023 by American Society...

... of the Caribbean. Edited by Samuel M. Wilson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida xiv + pp., figures, tables, foreword, preface, works cited, contributors, index. cloth.) Pedro J. Ferbel, Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink The indigenous people of the Caribbean have a long and rich history of cultural...

... on the initial discovery by Christopher Columbus before leaving the Caribbean behind. This essay addresses these silences by carefully examining the evolution of colonial society on Española using sources found in the Archivo General de Indias and recent archaeological studies. Among the themes I analyze in my...

..., literary works by Caribbean authors, archival materials from Martinique, and the author's own ethnographic fieldwork, this argument suggests that cultural history and creole identities play a significant role in shaping local patterns of illicit earning. By extending the notion of creole adaptations...

... and misrepresentation of indigenous women, using Pocahontas and Malinche as examples of distorted icons, referencing the hidden history of the sixteenth-century trade in indigenous sex slaves in the Caribbean and Mesoamerica, and arguing that the Armed Freedom statue atop the US Capitol Building is an allegorical icon...

..., Columbus maintains the belief that he had reached Asia, and the land of the Grand Can (“Caniba”). These names and associated behaviors (anthropophagy) do not represent or portray the native peoples of the Caribbean Islands. In contrast, the wounds observed are interpreted as emblematic of the potential...

... that fit with the initial Spanish impressions of native Caribbean peoples. Archaeological findings reveal some of the heterogeneity that has been obscured by the Carib category recorded in the ethnohistoric sources. Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2012 References Allaire...

...Gabriel De La Luz-Rodríguez Abstract This article argues for the importance of an ethnological hermeneutics in the study of the early colonial period in the Caribbean. It does so by applying this methodology to a founding document concerning early colonial encounters on the island of San Juan...

...Samantha R. Billing Abstract The Miskitu, a group indigenous to the Caribbean Coast of Central America, have long been recognized for their racial diversity. In the mid-seventeenth century, a ship of African slaves wrecked on the Mosquito Coast and subsequently intermarried with the Miskitu...

... of Caribbean colonization, the Spaniards were not in control as all actors were engaging in a novel environment, the structure of the conjuncture. The situation did change by the early 1500s, but the imprint of the structure of the conjuncture was felt for decades to come. References Abulafia David...

...Luciano Baracco Abstract Geopolitical changes taking place in late nineteenth-century Central America laid the pathway for Nicaragua’s long-desired incorporation of the autonomous Mosquito Reservation, which was located on its Caribbean Coast. This article brings to light the diplomatic mission...

...L. Antonio Curet The rules of succession described in the early Spanish chronicles for Caribbean chiefdoms have been used by many scholars to reconstruct a Taino kinship system. This article argues that these conclusions were reached by using unfounded assumptions, especially confusing rules...