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ISBN 13: 9780817356552
ISBN 10: 081735655X
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 11/22/2011
Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Islands at the Crossroads

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Migration, Seafaring, and Cultural Contact in the Caribbean	p. 1
Peoples and Boundaries: Systematics and the Practice of Caribbean Archaeology
Irving Rouse's Contribution to American Archaeology: The Case of Migration	p. 13
The Ghost of Caliban: Island Archaeology, Insular Archaeologists, and the Caribbean	p. 22
Colonies without Frontiers: Inter-island Trade in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Caribbean	p. 41
Tracing Exchange: Intensities and Scales of Interaction
Patterns of Contact between the Islands of the Caribbean and the Surrounding Mainland as a Navigation Problem	p. 59
Ties with the Homelands: Archipelagic Interaction and the Enduring Role of the South and Central American Mainlands in the Pre-Columbian Lesser Antilles	p. 73
Contraband in the Convento? Material Indications of Trade Relations in the Spanish Colonies	p. 87
Good as Gold: The Aesthetic Brilliance of the Lucayans	p. 104
Redefining Boundaries Through Social Interaction
The Magens House, Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: Archaeology of an Urban House Compound and Its Relationship to Local Interactions and Global Trade	p. 137
Close Encounters of the Caribbean Kind	p. 164
Competitive Polities and Territorial Expansion in the Caribbean	p. 193
Islands at the Crossroads: Archaeology of Interaction in the Caribbean	p. 219
References	p. 233
List of Contributors	p. 303
Index	p. 307
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