...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...

...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 for Ethnohistory...

...Pedro J. Ferbel Edited by Samuel M. Wilson. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,1997. xiv + 253 pp., figures, tables, foreword, preface, works cited,contributors, index. $49.95 cloth.) 2000 Book Reviews The Indigenous People of the Caribbean. Edited by Samuel M. Wilson. (Gainesville...

...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 by American...

...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 2016...

...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.) Copyright...

... : 115 -42. 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...

... 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 to the...

..., 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 for...

...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 of...

... 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 Louis...

...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 or...

... the Caribbean basin and presents articles that are both archaeological and historical in nature as well as those in- formed by the current contexts of local identity in the Caribbean region. This purely geographical emphasis...

... Islands. In Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1903-1904 , no. 25. Pp. 1 -220. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution. Helms, M. W. 1980 Succession to High Office in Pre-Columbian Circum-Caribbean Chief-doms. Man 15 : 718 -31. Keegan, W. F. 1992 The People Who...

... : Siglo XXI . Bate Luis Felipe 1998 El Proceso de la investigación en arqueología . Barcelona : Crítica . Bercht Fatima Brodsky Estrellita Farmer John Alan Taylor Dicey 1997 Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean . New York : El Museo del Barrio...

... might help make English planters the “sole masters of sugar for all the world.” 1 No official policy or merchant company emerged to carry out Worsley’s idea, but other evidence from Barbados, then the preeminent sugar-producing colony of the English Caribbean, confirms that this particular route had...

... characterized debates about the revolution’s unseemly demise in which several leaders of the revolution were executed is beginning to fade. Drawing on the revolution as a significant global event that helped define an entire generation of Caribbean women and men, Omens of Adversity , as the subtitle suggests...