Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Caribbean ◽  
Domestic Landscapes

Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Household Organization ◽  
Artifact Analysis ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Bahamian Archipelago ◽  
Domestic Landscapes

Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean examines the diversity of living environments that the enslaved inhabitants of the colonial Caribbean by analyzing archaeological evidence collected from a wide variety of sites across the region. Archaeological investigations of domestic architecture and artifacts illuminate the nature of household organization; fundamental changes in settlement patterns; and the manner in which power was invariably linked with the material arrangements of space among the enslaved living and working in a variety of contexts throughout the region, including plantations, fortifications, and urban centers. While research in the region has provided a considerable amount of data at the household-level, much of this work is biased towards artifact analysis, resulting in unfamiliarity with the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting households. The chapters in this book provide detailed reconstructions of the built environments associated with slavery and account for the cultural behaviors and social arrangements that shaped these spaces. It brings together case studies of Caribbean slave settlements through historical archaeology as a means of exposing the diversity of people and practices in these various landscapes, across the British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies in both the Greater and Lesser Antilles as well as the Bahamian archipelago.

Delusions in the Caribbean

1963 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-70
Author(s):  
WALTER MISCHEL
Keyword(s):  
The Caribbean
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