Island Historical Ecology

Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-763-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

In the first book-length treatise on historical ecology of the West Indies, Island Historical Ecology addresses Caribbean island ecologies from the perspective of social and cultural interventions over approximately eight millennia of human occupations. Environmental coring carried out in carefully selected wetlands allowed for the reconstruction of pre-colonial and colonial landscapes on islands between Venezuela and Puerto Rico. Comparisons with well-documented patterns in the Mediterranean and Pacific islands place this case study into a larger context of island historical ecology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Siegel, Peter E.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Acknowledgments

Foreword: A Prelude to Island Historical Ecology

William Balée

Preface

Peter E. Siegel

PART I: METHOD, THEORY, AND APPLICATIONS OF ISLAND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY

Chapter 1. Migrations, Colonization Processes, and Landscape Learning

Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 2. Unique Challenges in Archipelagoes:
Examples from the Mediterranean and Pacific Islands

Thomas P. Leppard

Chapter 3. A Cultural Framework for Caribbean Island Historical Ecology

Corinne L. Hofman and Menno L. P. Hoogland

Chapter 4. Methods for Addressing Island Historical Ecology

Deborah M. Pearsall, John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Peter E. Siegel, Pat Farrell, Jason H. Curtis, and Neil A. Duncan

PART II: WEST INDIAN ISLAND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY

Chapter 5. Trinidad

Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 6. Grenada

John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, Pat Farrell, Nicholas P. Dunning, Jason H. Curtis, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 7. Curaçao

Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Neil A. Duncan, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 8. Barbados

Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 9. Martinique

Neil A. Duncan, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 10. Marie-Galante

John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 11. Antigua

John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Deborah M. Pearsall, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 12. Barbuda

John G. Jones, Nicholas P. Dunning, Neil A. Duncan, Deborah M. Pearsall, and Peter E. Siegel

Chapter 13. St. Croix

Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Neil A. Duncan, and Peter E. Siegel

PART III: SYNTHESIS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN ISLAND HISTORICAL ECOLOGY

Chapter 14. Assessing Colonization, Landscape Learning, and Socionatural Changes in the Caribbean

Peter E. Siegel, Deborah M. Pearsall, Nicholas P. Dunning, John G. Jones, Pat Farrell, Neil A. Duncan, and Jason H. Curtis

Chapter 15. Insights from the Outside:
Some Wider Perspectives and Future Directions in Caribbean Island Historical Ecology

John F. Cherry

References

Glossary

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Siegel, Peter E.
Peter E. Siegel is Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University. His articles have appeared in Current Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and Journal of Field Archaeology, among others. Siegel’s research has been supported by the Heinz Family Foundation for Latin American Archaeology, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.

Peter E. Siegel is Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University. His articles have appeared in Current Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and Journal of Field Archaeology, among others. Siegel’s research has been supported by the Heinz Family Foundation for Latin American Archaeology, National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe.