Ethnohistory and Archaeology of the Caribbean

Department of Anthropology
Fall 2002

Professor Samuel M. Wilson (s.wilson@mail.utexas.edu)
ANT 384 / LAS 391 (26795 / 37235)

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30 Aug First class - Themes and directions Bonham Richardson, Chapters 1 and 2 from The Caribbean in the wider world, 1492-1992 (1992).
Wilson, The Prehistory and Early History of the Caribbean
6 Sep Early colonization of the Caribbean, 4000 to 1000 B.C.; Caribbean environments and adaptations Rouse, Preface and Chaps. 1-2 from The Tainos (1992)
Introduction, from Indigenous People of the Caribbean.
Preface and Chapter 1 of Trouillot Silencing the Past (1995)
Map exercise is due
13 Sep Archaic people and cultural continuity; Huecan complexities and the difficulties of archaeological interpretation Wilson, Iceland, Hester - "Preceramic Connections" Latin American Antiquity 1998.
Oliver - "La Hueca Problem" in Archaeological investigations on St. Martin (Hofman and Hoogland).
Wilson - Archaic Chapter (draft)
Case Studies Begin		 Peggy, Chet
20 Sep The Saladoid Migrations - processes of colonization; terrestrial economics in the Antilles; encounters between Archaic populations and Saladoid migrants Indigenous People, Part 3 (chaps. 7-11)
Wilson - Saladoid Chapter (draft - not in packet - I'll provide copies)		 Clay, Jodi
27 Sep The emergence of complex societies in the Greater Antilles Wilson, introduction from Hispaniola (1990)
The relación of Fray Ramón Pané
Curet and Oliver - "Mortuary Practices, Social Development, and Ideology in Precolumbian Puerto Rico"		 Lisa, PC
4 Oct Taíno societies and other Caribbean people in later prehistory. Changes in the Lesser Antilles Part 4 (Chapters 12 -17) from Indigenous People
Wilson - "Cultural Mosaic of the Indigenous Caribbean"		 Lidia, Amy
11 Oct The European conquest of Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Cuba; reading Taíno culture from documents; combining the archaeology and ethnohistory of the Taíno; Island Caribs at the time of the Taíno fluorescence Chapter 4 from Trouillot, Silencing
Wilson, Chapter 4 from Wilson Hispaniola
Excerpt from Diario of Columbus
Final Project Plan Due		 Helene, John
18 Oct The Island Caribs: archaeology & history; the anthropological "problems" of the Island Caribs - identity, continuity, cannibalism, etc. Whitehead, Introduction from Wolves from the Sea
Jalil Sued Badillo, "The Island Caribs," from Wolves from the Sea
Allaire, chapter 18, from Indigenous People
Readings from Wild Majesty: Whitehead, "The Island Carib as anthropological icon." 		Milton, Bryan, Heather
25 Oct Orientation to Caribbean Colonialsim; Spanish, English, French, and Dutch colonial strategies in the Caribbean

Mintz and Price - "Introduction" from Caribbean Contours (1985)
Engerman - "Europe, the Lesser Antilles, and Economic Expansion, 1600-1800" from Pacquette and Engerman (1996), The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion.
Chapter 2 and 3 of Trouillot, Silencing
Short Proposal Due
1 Nov Ethnohistory in the Contact Period, The legacy of the island Caribs, and their interactions with African and European people. Cultural pluralism in the islands.

Kofi Agorsah, "Ethnoarchaeological considerations of social relationship and settlement patterning amoing Africans in the Caribbean Diaspora" from African Sites: Archaeology in the Caribbean (Haviser, ed. 1999)
Wilson, "Legacies" from Indigenous People
8 Nov The African Slave Trade and emerging African-Caribbean identities in the Caribbean; African origins.

Price, excerpt from Maroon Societies.
Mintz, "Slave Life…" from Slave Cultures and Cultures of Slavery, Palmié, ed. 1995.
Adjustment-- read Kofi's "considerations" from the previous week here

see I've reshuffled some presentations from here down..

 
15 Nov Changing strategies; changing constructions of race. Continuing silences in Caribbean history. Armstrong, excerpt from The Old Village and the Great House. Barry Gaspar, excerpt from Bondmen and Rebels Final Presentations Begin Helene, Chet, Lidia, Milton
22 Nov Emancipation and after; Caribbean in the 20th C. Excerpt from Hillary Beckles, Centering Woman Lisa, Clay, Jodi, PC
29 Nov Thanksgiving --no meeting    
6 Dec Caribbean cultures in the 20th and 21st centuries. Indigenous revival, cultural mosaics. Davila, "The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture and building blocks of nationality"
"Peoples of the Jumbled Lands: The Republics of Hispaniola" Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Final Paper Due Monday Dec. 9th		 Amy, John, Peg, Heather

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