Islands at the Crossroads - Migration, Seafaring, and Interaction in the Caribbean

Informationen zum Autor L. Antonio Curet is an assistant curator in the Department of Anthropology at the Field Museum; the author of Caribbean Paleodemography: Population, Culture History, and Sociopolitical Processes in Ancient Puerto Rico; and coeditor, with Lisa M. Stringer, of Tibes: People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos. Mark W. Hauser is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University and author of An Archaeology of Black Markets: Local Ceramics and Economies in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica. Klappentext The contributors to Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the Caribbean, the United States, and Europe who look beyond cultural boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and layered ways in which both distant and more intimate sociocultural, political, and economic interactions have shaped Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent times. Zusammenfassung The contributors to Islands at the Crossroads include scholars from the Caribbean! the United States! and Europe who look beyond cultural boundaries and colonial frontiers to explore the complex and layered ways in which both distant and more intimate sociocultural! political! and economic interactions have shaped Caribbean societies from seven thousand years ago to recent times.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: L. Antonio (EDT)/ Hauser Curet
• Con la collaborazione di: L Antonio Curet (Editore), L. Antonio Curet (Editore), Mark W Hauser (Editore), Mark W. Hauser (Editore)
• Editore: The University of Alabama Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.06.2011
• EAN: 9780817356552
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5655-2
• Pagine: 352
• Serie: Caribbean Archaeology and Ethn; Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series; Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series; Caribbean Archaeology and Ethn
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria