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The connected Caribbean : a socio-material network approach to patterns of homogeneity and diversity in the pre-colonial period /
The modern-day Caribbean is a stunningly diverse but also intricately interconnected geo-cultural region, resulting partly from the islands' shared colonial histories and an increasingly globalizing economy. Perhaps more importantly, before the encounter between the New and Old World took place...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, Netherlands :
Sidestone Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Sidestone Press Dissertations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Homogeneity and Diversity in the Pre-colonial Caribbean; The pan-Caribbean theory; Problems with categorization; Network concepts and network models; Hidden network models in Caribbean archaeology; Networks of "people" and networks of "pots"; Aims and questions; Outline; A Dynamic Island World: The Northeastern Caribbean; Geography; A diverse geology and ecology; Maritime technology and voyaging; Culture history; Foundation: 6000/4000 BC
- 2000 BC; Development: 2000-800 BC; Continuity: 800-200 BC; Transition: 200 BC-AD 400.
- Waxing and waning of inter-regional interaction: AD 400-600/800Increasing density and complexity: AD 600/800-1492; Cultural, linguistic and ethnic (self- )identification; Ontology ; Substrates and processes of pre-colonial networks; Archaeology as a Network Science: Basic Concepts and Measures; The embedding of network science in archaeology; Key concepts and operation; 2-mode networks and ego-networks; Measuring and visualizing networks; Measures of the network as a whole; Subgraphs; Centrality; Network explorations.
- Ties that Matter, Matter that Ties: A Theoretical Framework for Socio-material Network StudiesSociety and material culture; Mind over matter?; The gift: a material total social fact; The interdependency of persons and gifts; Kula: from gift relations to socio-material network; Object perspectivism and socio-material interdependency; A Maussian and Amerindian ontological framework; A Heart of Stone: Lithic Networks from 3200 BC to AD 400; Nodes and ties; Period A: foundation ; Structure and subgraphs; Interpretation; Period B: growth; Structure and subgraphs; Interpretation.
- Period C: transitionStructure, subgraphs and centrality; Interpretation; Period D: robust networks; Structure, subgraphs and centrality; Interpretation; Period E: emulation ; Structure, subgraphs and clique strength; Centrality; Interpretation; Longitudinal trajectories of lithic production and distribution networks; The dynamics of lithic networks; Remotely Local: Ego-networks of Late Pre-colonial (AD 1000-1450) Saba; Northeastern Caribbean geographic networks continued; Local, region and interregional ties at Kelbey's Ridge 2; The ego-network of Kelbey's Ridge 2.
- Relational models at Kelbey's Ridge 2Beyond the Ego; Caciques and their Collectives: An Ethnohistoric View of Political Networks; Cacical networks: a fragmentary archaeological view; Cacical networks: a view from ethnohistory; Cacical nodes and ties; Cacical network structure and strategy; Triadic roots of the cacical collective; The complexity of the cacicazgo; Familiar Faces: The Diverse Design of Guaízas and their Use as Gifts; Depictions of the face in the pre-colonial Caribbean; Guaízas as socio-cosmic nodes; Guaízas as gifts; Guaíza design as a network.