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Voices in Exile

Jamaican Texts of the 18th and 19th Centuries

University of Alabama Press

The songs, sermons and other materials collected in this anthology thoroughly characterize and demonstrate the distinctive language and culture that developed when African and European exiles came together on the plantations of Jamaica. Accounts of planters, slave-trading captains, and other testimonies from both the colonial and indigenous population effectively illustrate the unfolding of this unique culture.

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Rock Art of the Caribbean

University of Alabama Press

Rock Art of the Caribbean focuses on the nature of Caribbean rock art or rock graphics and makes clear the region's substantial and distinctive rock art tradition.

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The Aborigines of Puerto Rico and Neighboring Islands

University of Alabama Press

A valuable recounting of the first formal archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico

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Trinidad Yoruba

From Mother-Tongue to Memory

University of Alabama Press

A deeply informed Afrocentric view of language and cultural retention under slavery.

Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a comprehensive description of the West African language of Yoruba as it has been used on the island of Trinidad in the southern Caribbean.

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Caciques and Cemi Idols

The Web Spun by Taino Rulers Between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico

University of Alabama Press

Takes a close look at the relationship between humans and other (non-human) beings that are imbued with cemí power, specifically within the Taíno inter-island cultural sphere of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola

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Language in Exile

Three Hundred Years of Jamaican Creole

University of Alabama Press

"An important addition to studies of the genesis and life of Jamaican Creole as well as other New World creoles such as Gulla. Highlighting the nature of the nonstandard varieties of British English dialects to which the African slaves were exposed, this work presents a refreshingly cogent view of Jamaican Creole features."
--SECOL Review

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Heritage or Heresy

Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera

University of Alabama Press

Through analysis of seven archaeological sites on the Yucatan peninsula that are open to heritage touring, Walker reveals the planned growth of the Maya Riviera since the early 1970s and examines the impact of international tourism on both ancient structures and the contemporary Maya people and culture.

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Talking Taino

Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective

University of Alabama Press, Fire Ant Books

Keegan and Carlson, combined, have spent over 45 years conducting archaeological research in the Caribbean, directing projects in Trinidad, Grenada, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, the Turks & Caicos Islands, and throughout the Bahamas.

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Pre-Columbian Jamaica

University of Alabama Press

Pre-Columbian Jamaica represents the first substantial attempt to summarize the prehistoric evidence from the island in a single published account since J. E. Duerden’s invaluable 1897 article on the subject, which is also reprinted within this volume.

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Archaeology and Geoinformatics

Case Studies from the Caribbean

Edited by Basil A. Reid
University of Alabama Press

Provides tremendous insight and an excellent grasp of the special geoinformatics needs of Caribbean researchers
 

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Crossing the Borders

New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean

University of Alabama Press

Explores the application of a selected number of newly emerging methods and techniques

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The Nature of an Ancient Maya City

Resources, Interaction, and Power at Blue Creek, Belize

University of Alabama Press

Reveals what daily Maya life was like

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