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The Indigenous peoples of Trinidad and Tobago : from the first settlers until today / Arie Boomert.
Author
Boomert, Arie
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Leiden : Sidestone Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
1 online resource (218 p.)
Availability
Available Online
Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles
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Subject(s)
Indigenous peoples
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Trinidad and Tobago
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History
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Notes
Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 23, 2016).
Contents
List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Geographical situation and natural environment; The indigenous peoples of Trinidad and Tobago; Discovery of archaeological sites; 2. The first settlers (ca. 8000-300 BC); The earliest Trinidadians; The first Tobagonians and late Archaic times in Trinidad; 3. New immigrants: the first ceramists (ca. 300; BC-AD 650/800); Saladoid settlement sites in Trinidad and Tobago; Saladoid ceramics and Barrancoid intrusion; Saladoid/Barrancoid subsistence and food processing; Saladoid/Barrancoid population, society and religion
4. Late-prehistoric cultural change (ca.AD 650/800;1498)Arauquinoid settlement in Trinidad; Troumassoid occupation of Tobago; On the brink of the Historic Age: Mayoid in Trinidad and Cayo (?) in Tobago; 5. Amerindian culture and society in Trinidad and Tobago at the time of the encounter and thereafter; Population and settlement patterns; Subsistence and food processing; Social organization and life cycle; Interaction: war and exchange; Religion: cosmology and shamanism; 6. The Amerindian-European struggle for Trinidad and Tobago (1498-1592)
The first European; Amerindian encounters in Trinidad and Tobago Attempts at Spanish settlement in Trinidad and slave raids in Tobago; 7. The Spanish-Amerindian frontier in Trinidad (1592-1686); Spanish settlement and Amerindian reaction; Hierreyma and the great Amerindian rebellion; 8. European settlement and Amerindian response in Tobago (1592; ca. 1810); Slave raids and the first European attempts at settlement; Further Dutch and Courlander ventures; A peaceful interlude: Tobago as a 'neutral' island; From marginalization to extinction; 9. Mission villages in Spanish Trinidad (1686-1797)
Establishment of Capuchin missions in Spanish Trinidad Abolition and reinstatement of the missions; Foreign immigration and the development of a plantation economy; 10. British colonization and Amerindian persistence in Trinidad (1797-present); The end of mission times in British Trinidad; Becoming a small segment of a plural society; The present Amerindian community of Trinidad; Epilogue. The Amerindian heritage of Trinidad and Tobago; Glossary; Bibliography; Pre-Columbian and historic Amerindian archaeology; Primary historic sources and maps; Various historical and anthropological accounts
Amerindian cultural heritage Appendix. Institutions and museums with significant archaeological holdings from Trinidad and Tobago; Index;
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ISBN
90-8890-354-9
OCLC
944910446
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