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A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico. Originally published as the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1907, this book was praised in an article in American Anthropologist as doing ""more than any other to give a comprehensive idea of the archaeology of the West Indies."" Until that time, for mainly political reasons, little scientific research had been conducted by Americans on any of the Caribbean islands. Dr. Fewkes' unique skills o
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In Distant Voices Near, we learn of international and regional influences as listeners in Trinidad would tune into broadcasts from abroad before local stations were available. Among these influences were international broadcasts from All-India Radio and broadcasts from British Guiana, where descendants of Indian indentured labourers first introduced pay-for-play song request programmes on their local stations.
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"Documents the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them powerful academics and leaders, as they collaborated to institutionalize gender and development studies at the University of West Indies. We learn about the origins of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies and how it came to provide global academic leadership in the field of gender and development studies".
Women's studies --- Feminist theory --- University of the West Indies.
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La notion d'« espace » est un concept clé de la disciple archéologique. Les vestiges mobiliers ou immobiliers trouvés en fouille sont les reflets matériels des aspects politiques, sociaux, économiques et culturels des populations étudiées. De fait, l'espace archéologique est socialement construit. L'agencement des vestiges dans l'espace témoigne de l'organisation des lieux du quotidien, ce qui permet d'accéder à des ensembles revêtant une grande signification sociale, culturelle ou symbolique. Conceptualisée selon plusieurs échelles, notamment géographiques et chronologiques, la notion d'espac
Indians of the West Indies --- Indigenous peoples --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Social life and customs. --- Caribbean Area
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A linguistic analysis supporting a new model of the colonization of the Antilles before 1492. This work formulates a testable hypothesis of the origins and migration patterns of the aboriginal peoples of the Greater Antilles (Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico), the Lucayan Islands (the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the Crown Colony of the Turks and Caicos), the Virgin Islands, and the northernmost of the Leeward Islands, prior to European contact. Using archaeological data as corroboration, the authors synthesize evidence that has been available in scattered l
Taino language --- Indians of the West Indies --- Arawakan languages --- Indigenous peoples --- Languages.
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Indians of the West Indies --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities --- Cuba --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean Area. --- Cuba.
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'The Caribbean before Columbus' is a synthesis of the region's insular history based on the authors' 55 years of research in the Bahamas, Lesser and Greater Antilles. The presentation operates on multiple scales, and individual sites highlight specific issues.
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Indians of the West Indies --- Archaeology --- Antiquities. --- West Indies
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The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Taíno were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the United States. The truth is more complex, but in many ways Puerto Rico remains one of the last colonies in the world. This volume focuses on the successive indigenous cultures of Puerto Rico prior to 1493. Traditional studies of the cultures of indigenous peoples of
Indians of the West Indies --- Archaeology and history --- Antiquities. --- Puerto Rico --- West Indies
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Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques. During the past few decades, Caribbean scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly developed and employed new methods and techniques for the study of archaeological materials. The aim of earlier research in the Caribbean was mainly to define typologies on the basis of pottery and lithic assemblages leading to the establishment of chronological charts for the region, and it was not until the 1980's that the use of technological and functional analyses of
Indians of the West Indies --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Antiquities --- Methodology --- West Indies
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This book presents a series of scholarly papers in relation to Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East. The reader will apprehend that Islam is not the monolithic religion so often depicted in the media or (earlier) in the academic world. The Islamic world is more than a uniform civilization with a set of petrified religious prescriptions and an outdated view on political and social organization. The contributions show the dynamics of "Islam at work" in different geographical and social contexts. By treating the working of Islamic thinking and of Islamic activism on a practical level, this book includes innovative research and fills a significant gap in existing work.
Islam --- Islam and politics. --- Islam and civil society. --- Islam and social problems. --- Islam and the West.
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