|
Showing 1 - 1 of
1 matches in All Departments
The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a
sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic
through Taino 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 the
Caribbean have centered on ceramic studies, based on the
archaeological model developed by Irving Rouse which has guided
Caribbean archaeology for decades. Rodriguez Ramos departs from
this methodology by implementing lithics as the primary unit for
tracing the origins and developments of the indigenous peoples of
Puerto Rico. Analyzing the technological styles involved in the
production of stone artifacts in the island through time, as well
as the evaluation of an inventory of more than 500 radiocarbon
dates recovered since Rouse's model emerged, the author presents a
truly innovative study revealing alternative perspectives on Puerto
Rico's pre-Columbian culture-historical sequence. By applying a
multiscalar design, he not only not only provides an analysis of
the plural ways in which the precolonial peoples of the island
interacted and negotiated their identities but also shows how the
cultural landscapes of Puerto Rico, the Antilles, and the Greater
Caribbean shaped and were shaped by mutually constituting processes
through time.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R66
Discovery Miles 660
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.