The indigenous people of the Caribbean
edited by Samuel M. Wilson.
- 1st pbk. print.
- Gainesville, FL University Press of Florida 1999, c1997.
- xiv, 253 p. ill., maps 24 cm.
- The Ripley P. Bullen series .
"Organized by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council." Originally published as hbk.: 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-248) and index.
1. Introduction to the study of the indigenous people of the Caribbean / S.M. Wilson -- Background to the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Caribbean: The study of aboriginal peoples : multiple ways of knowing / Ricardo Alegría; The Lesser Antilles before Columbus / Louis Allaire -- The encounter: The biological impacts of 1492 / Richard L. Cunningham; The Salt River Site, St. Croix, at the time of the encounter / Birgit Faber Morse; European views of the aboriginal population / Alissandra Cummins -- The first migration of village farmers, 500 B.C. to A.D. 800: Settlement strategies in the early Ceramic Age / Jay B. Haviser; The ceramics, art, and material culture of the early Ceramic Period in the Caribbean Islands / Elizabeth Righter; Religious beliefs of the Saladoid people / Miguel Rodríguez; Maritime trade in the prehistoric eastern Caribbean / David R. Watters; Notes on ancient Caribbean art and mythology / Henry Petitjean Roget -- The Taino of the Greater Antilles on the eve of conquest: "No man [or woman] is an island" : elements of Taino social organization / William F. Keegan; Taino, Island Carib, and prehistoric Amerindian economies in the West Indies : tropical forest adaptations to island environments / James B. Petersen; The material culture of the Taino Indians / Ignacio Olazagasti; The Taino cosmos / José R. Oliver; Some observations on the Taino language / Arnold R. Highfield; The Taino vision : a study in the exchange of misunderstanding / H.P. Roget -- The island Caribs of the Lesser Antilles: The Caribs of the Lesser Antilles / L. Allaire; Language and gender among the Kalingo of fifteenth-century St. Croix / Vincent O. Cooper
0813016924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Indians of the West Indies Indians of the West Indies--Antiquities.
Caribbean Area--Antiquities. West Indies--Antiquities.