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Renewing the house : trajectories of social life in the yucayeque (community) of El Cabo, Higüey, Dominican Republic, AD 800 to 1504 /
This study is a contribution to the household archaeology of the Caribbean. The aim of the research was to come to a material definition of the pre-colonial house, rather than rely on the few, short, Spanish colonial descriptions. Archaeological research from the Indigenous Taíno site of El Cabo in...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Houses for the living and the dead; Scope of the research; Dissertation structure and chapter outline; Introduction; 1.1 Positioning the El Cabo research within the Greater Antillean archaeological tradition; 1.2 Overview of structure excavations in the Greater Antilles; 1.2.1 Summary of Greater Antillean structure characteristics; 1.3 Positioning the El Cabo research within the archaeological research history of the Dominican Republic; 1.3.1 The early phase; 1.3.2 A national Dominican archaeology; 1.3.3 The Dominican Golden Age; 1.3.4 The current state of affairs.
- 1.4 Positioning the El Cabo research locally1.4.1 Threats to the Dominican heritage; 1.4.2 Large-scale destruction; 1.4.3 The relevance of El Cabo to local history and vice versa; 1.5 Discussion; Trajectories of social life; 2.1 Household archaeologies; 2.1.1 Methodology in household archaeology; 2.1.2 House theories in archaeology; 2.1.3 Definitions and approach used in the dissertation; 2.2 The house as a unit of analysis in the archaeology of the Indigenous Greater Antilles; 2.2.1 The material house; 2.2.2 Houses and kinship; 2.2.3 House temporalities; 2.2.4 Houses, identity and personhood.
- 2.2.5 Houses, hierarchy and social complexity2.3 Two sources of analogy as reference points in the study of El Cabo; 2.3.1 The house and Amazonian sociality: Aesthetics, morals and socialisation; 2.3.2 Present day El Cabo; 2.4 Review of data in early colonial sources; 2.4.1 Physical descriptions of houses; 2.4.2 House layout, furnishings and activities; 2.4.3 Settlement layout; 2.4.4 Household organization; 2.4.5 Conceptualization and cultural status of house; 2.4.6 Discussion; 2.5 Review of house as research focus in Greater Antillean archaeology; 2.5.1 Discussion of the different approaches.
- 2.6 DiscussionRegional and local setting of El Cabo; 3.1 Research history in the eastern region; 3.1.1 Previous investigations; 3.2 El Cabo: Site setting; 3.3 Geological setting: Dissolving worlds; 3.3.1 The eastern coastal plains; 3.3.2 Summary; 3.4 Ecology and palaeoecology; 3.4.1 Current ecology of the eastern Dominican Republic; 3.4.2 Palaeoecology of El Cabo; 3.5 Land use history; 3.5.1 Material history; 3.5.2 Census data and reconstructed history; 3.5.3 Oral history; 3.5.4 Summary and discussion; 3.6 Regional setting: Pre-Columbian and colonial Higüey.
- 3.6.1 The archaeology of the eastern region, post-AD 6003.6.2 Settlement patterns; 3.6.3 Discussion; 3.6.4 Higüey: The last cacicazgo and the pacification of the east; 3.7 El Cabo archaeological research history; 3.7.1 El Cabo in 1978; 3.7.2 El Cabo in 2000; 3.7.3 El Cabo in recent fieldwork and historical reports; 3.8 Discussion; Current research in El Cabo; 4.1 Introduction: the processes of discovery or rediscubrimiento in El Cabo; 4.1.1 Summary of 2005 fieldwork; 4.1.2 Summary of 2006 fieldwork; 4.1.3 Summary of 2007 fieldwork; 4.1.4 Summary of 2008 fieldwork; 4.2 Fieldwork procedures.