Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean

Contextualizing Sites Through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvTodd M. Ahlman,Gerald F. Schroedl,Todd M Ahlman,Gerald F Schroedl

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A new perspective on Caribbean historical archaeology that goes beyond the colonial plantation.Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean: Contextualizing Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalism addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries. The essays in this volume are grounded in strong research programs and data analysis that incorporate humanistic narratives in their discussions of Amerindian, freedmen, plantation, institutional, military, and urban sites. Sites include a sample of the many different types found across the Caribbean from a variety of colonial contexts that are seldom reported in archaeological research, yet constitute components essential to understanding the full range and depth of Caribbean history. Contributors examine urban contexts in Nevis and St. John and explore the economic connections between Europeans and enslaved Africans in urban and plantation settings in St. Eustatius. The volume contains a pioneering study of frontier exchange with Amerindians in Dominica and a synthesis of ceramic exchange networks among enslaved Africans in the Leeward Islands. Chapters on military forts in Nevis and St. Kitts call attention to this often-neglected aspect of the Caribbean colonial landscape. Contributors also directly address culture heritage issues relating to community participation and interpretation. On St. Kitts, the legacy of forced confinement of lepers ties into debates of current public health policy. Plantation site studies from Antigua and Martinique are especially relevant because they detail comparisons of French and British patterns of African enslavement and provide insights into how each addressed the social and economic changes that occurred with emancipation.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-11-12
Mått152 x 229 x 9144 mm
Vikt577 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCaribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
Antal sidor288
FörlagThe University of Alabama Press
ISBN9780817320324

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List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Contextualizing Caribbean Historical Sites through Colonialism, Capitalism, and Globalization by Todd M. Ahlman and Gerald F. SchroedlChapter 1. Kalinagos and Catholics in Dominica before 1763: Archaeology and History of Caribbean Frontiers by Stephan LenikChapter 2. The Congo Free Black Village on St. Eustatius, Netherlands Caribbean by R. Grant Gilmore IIIChapter 3. Jamestown, Nevis, and Urban Resilience in the Early English Caribbean by Carter L. Hudgins, Eric Klingelhofer, and Roger H. LeechChapter 4. Inter- and Intraisland Trade of Afro-Caribbean Ware in the Lesser Antilles by Todd M. Ahlman, Gerald F. Schroedl, Barbara J. Heath, R. Grant Gilmore III, and Jeffrey R. FergusonChapter 5. A Danish Colonial Merchant's Residence in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas: Material Colonialism and the Intersection of Local and Global Trade at the Bankhus by Christian Williamson and Douglas V. ArmstrongChapter 6. The Investigation of Daily Practice of Enslaved Laborer and Sharecropper Households on an Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century French-Caribbean Plantation by Diane Wallman and Kenneth G. KellyChapter 7. From Slavery to Freedom: Changes in Afro-Antiguan Lifeways, 1790–1840 by Samantha Rebovich BardoeChapter 8. The Military and Institutional Occupations of Charles Fort, St. Kitts, West Indies by Gerald F. Schroedl and Todd M. AhlmanChapter 9. Caribbean Heritage in 3D: New Heritage and Historical Archaeology in Nevis, West Indies by Edward González-Tennant and Diana González-TennantChapter 10. Current and Future Directions in the Historical Archaeology of the Eastern Caribbean by Paul FarnsworthReferences CitedIndex

Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean will have a receptive readership in Caribbean archaeology. The combination of studies, ranging as it does from faunal analysis to ceramics and post-emancipation era transitions makes for a volume likely to stimulate future research projects." - Marco Meniketti, author of Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation: An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies"This volume offers significant new insights into a range of Caribbean sites; plantations, free communities of color, military forts, frontiers, urban landscapes, households, and asylums . . . The foci of each contributor also illustrates how historical archaeology in the Caribbean is shifting away from emphasizing plantation contexts, while still acknowledging the centrality of these estates." - Kristen Fellows, assistant professor of Anthropology at North Dakota State University