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Author Hofman, Corinne L

Title Communities in Contact : Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean
Published Leiden : SIdestone Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (514 pages)
Contents Preface; Foreword; Mobility and Exchange; Unravelling the multi-scale networks of mobility and exchange in the pre-colonial circum-Caribbean; The social in the circum-Caribbean; Bringing interaction into higher spheres; Early phytocultural processes in the pre-Colonial Antilles; The circulation of jadeitite across the Caribbeanscape; 'This relic of antiquity'; Much to choose from; Diverse origins, similar diets; Trio movements and the Amotopoan flux; Culture Contact; El Chorro de Maíta; Conflicting cosmologies; In sickness and in health ; Through the eyes of the chronicler
From Cayo to Kalinago"Removed from off the face of the island"; An ethnohistorical approach of the Carib through written sources; De insulis Karaybicis relationes manuscriptæ; John Nicholl; Pierre Pelleprat; The first missionaries and the evangelization of black slaves in the Lesser Antilles in the early years of French colonization (1625-1655); Settlement and Community; Living islands of the Caribbean; Palaeoecology and human occupation during the Mid-Holocene in Puerto Rico: the case of Angostura; The most beautiful house in the world
Plus d'une Langue (no more language / more than a language)Ethnoarchaeology of the Amazonian house; Contextualization of Amazonia artefacts; Epilogue; Scale, hybridity, and perspective in the Caribbean and beyond ; List of Contributors
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Subject Archaeology -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses
Ethnohistory -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses
Ethnology -- Caribbean Area -- Congresses
Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Archaeology
Ethnohistory
Ethnology
Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities
Caribbean Area
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Van Duijvenbode, Anne
ISBN 9789088904110
9088904111