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Out of Many, One People

The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica

University of Alabama Press

Out of Many, One People paints a complex and fascinating picture of life in colonial Jamaica, and demonstrates how archaeology has contributed to heritage preservation on the island.

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Beyond the Blockade

New Currents in Cuban Archaeology

University of Alabama Press

Builds on dialogues opened in recent years between Cuban archaeologists, whose work has long been carried out behind closed doors, and their international colleagues

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Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History

University of Alabama Press

Focuses on the successive indigenous cultures of Puerto Rico prior to 1493

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Origins of the Tainan Culture, West Indies

University of Alabama Press

When originally published in German in 1924, this volume was hailed as the first modern, comprehensive archaeological overview of an emerging area of the world, now known as the Caribbean islands.   Sven Loven decided to update and reissue the work in English, which he thought to be the future international language of scholarship. This work is a classic, with enduring interpretations, broad geographic range, and an eager audience.

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Tibes

People, Power, and Ritual at the Center of the Cosmos

University of Alabama Press

The first comprehensive analysis of a strategically located ceremonial center on the island of Puerto Rico

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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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