Lucayan Legacies
Indigenous lifeways in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands
Joanna Ostapkowicz | 2023
This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy…
Shaping Cultural Landscapes
Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou & Jari Pakkanen | 2022
Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the…
The Value of a Human Life
Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity
Edited by Karel C. Innemée | 2022
Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much…
Hispaniola - Hell or Home?
Decolonizing Grand Narratives about Intercultural Interactions at Concepción de la Vega (1494-1564)
Pauline M. Kulstad-González | 2020
Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all…
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter
Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles
Vernon James Knight | 2020
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small…
Heritage Education
Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum: A View from Teacher Practice
Eldris Con Aguilar | 2020
This book compiles the results of a doctoral research study that sought to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social studies. To this end, the questions focused on…
Islands of Salt
Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880
Konrad A. Antczak | 2019
The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity…
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Lucayan Legacies
Indigenous lifeways in The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands
Joanna Ostapkowicz | 2023
This book is about Lucayan legacies – the heritage of the people who made The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands (the Lucayan archipelago) their home from the 8th to the 16th centuries. This legacy…
Shaping Cultural Landscapes
Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies
Edited by Ann Brysbaert, Irene Vikatou & Jari Pakkanen | 2022
Any activity requires the expenditure of energy, and the larger the scale of the undertakings, the more careful and strategic planning in advance is required. In focusing on labouring by humans and other animals, the…
The Value of a Human Life
Ritual Killing and Human Sacrifice in Antiquity
Edited by Karel C. Innemée | 2022
Throughout the millennia and all over the world people have been killed by others, not only in wars and as a result of murders, but also in a ritualised way, often called human sacrifice. Much…
Hispaniola - Hell or Home?
Decolonizing Grand Narratives about Intercultural Interactions at Concepción de la Vega (1494-1564)
Pauline M. Kulstad-González | 2020
Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse all…
Caribbean Figure Pendants: Style and Subject Matter
Anthropomorphic figure pendants of the late Ceramic Age in the Greater Antilles
Vernon James Knight | 2020
This work synthesizes art-historical and anthropological methods in the analysis of a large corpus of indigenous figure pendants, commonly called “amulets,” from the Greater Antilles and Bahamas. Figure pendants, ubiquitous in Caribbean collections, are small…
Heritage Education
Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum: A View from Teacher Practice
Eldris Con Aguilar | 2020
This book compiles the results of a doctoral research study that sought to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social studies. To this end, the questions focused on…
Islands of Salt
Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880
Konrad A. Antczak | 2019
The early-modern Venezuelan Caribbean did not lure seafarers with the saccharine delights of cane sugar but with the preserving qualities of solar sea salt. In this book, the historical archaeological study of this salty commodity…
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