Colonial Encounters in the Southern Lesser Antilles

Indigenous Resistance, Material Transformations, and Diversity in an Ever-Globalizing World

Bibliographic Data

ID23632164
AuthorsC L Hofman (0000-0003-4447-5019), M L P Hoogland (0000-0002-6355-1278), Arie Boomert, Arie Boomert Arie Boomert, John Angus Martin
Year2019
Pages359-384
Publication date2019-04-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueMaterial Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004273689_017
OpenAlexW2965812481
ISBN9789004273689
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited20

During the colonization processes vast webs of social relationships emerged between Amerindians, Europeans, and Africans in the Lesser Antilles. The intercultural dynamics which materialized during this period were likely contingent on local and regional networks of peoples, goods, and ideas which had developed in the Caribbean over the previous 5000 years. This paper focusses on the impacts of colonial encounters on indigenous Carib societies by studying transformations in settlement pattern and organization, material culture, and network strategies. Recent excavations at the early colonial sites of Argyle, St. Vincent and La Poterie, Grenada have revealed the remains of indigenous villages and a set of material culture evidencing the first Amerindian, European and African interactions in the southern Lesser Antilles. In this paper, we will advance novel perspectives on intercultural dynamics in colonial encounter situations and contribute to discussions of indigenous resistance, cultural transformations, and cultural diversity in an ever globalizing world.

Archaeology · Colonialism · Colonization · Diversity (politics) · Economic geography · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Resistance (ecology) · Settlement (finance) · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History

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