Browse by Subject: Anthropology and Archaeology

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"Any Time Is Trinidad Time": Social Meanings and Temporal Consciousness

Explores cultural ideas of time in rural Trinidad and feelings of cooperation and conflict that result from using different models of time. Considers ethnic, class, and gender relationships in this context.

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Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians

Explores Seminole and Miccosukee culture through information provided by archaeology, ethnography, historical documents, and the oral histories of the Indians

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The Colonial Caribbean in Transition: Essays on Postemancipation Social and Cultural History

Edited collection of essays examining the social evolution of the colonial Caribbean, from the end of slavery to mid-20th century. Focuses on social & ethnic groups, class, gender, & development of cultural & intellectual traditions.

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Corn in Clay: Maize Paleoethnobotany in Precolumbian Art

In a novel and interdisciplinary form of scholarship, the author combines botany, archaeology, and art history in this study of contact between ancient American cultures. Focusing on the Zapotec of Mexico and the Moche of Peru, the author integrates

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Precolumbian Architecture in Eastern North America

Comprehensive overview of ancient eastern North American monuments -- magnificently illustrated with 34 black-and-white plates and 188 drawings -- analyzing prehistoric architecture beginning more than 6,000 years ago

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The Indigenous People of the Caribbean

The first general introduction to the indigenous people of the Caribbean, written as a collection of essays from nineteen of the most prominent Caribbean specialists, among them archeologists, historians, ethnohistorians,

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Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americas

Edited collection of essays on the dynamics of chi

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Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present

Illustrated history of Native Americans in Florida

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Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast

Classic reprint of the standard archaeological ref

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Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida

Classic reprint of 1952 pioneer archaeological stu