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*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts." - Christopher Columbus On October 12, 1492, one of the most important "first contacts" of the modern era was made when three ships of Spanish origin approached the island archipelago now known as the Bahamas, cautiously dropping anchor as the captain of the fleet gazed across to what he assumed was the coast of India. According to the popular version of the story, amazed at...
A vivid portrait of a threatened culture, by the first ethnologist to document indigenous tribes in the northern Amazon basin.
Xaymaca (Jamaica's) history has very little data on the Arawak Indians. I therefore wrote this book as a fictional account of what may have transpired with the predominately African presence which includes the Spanish, Indians, Chinese, and Caucasians; the African presence still dominates not only on the island but throughout the world where their parents immigrated to foreign lands for work or to live with family.
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The Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona is a peer-reviewed monograph series sponsored by the School of Anthropology. Established in 1959, the series publishes archaeological and ethnographic papers that use contemporary method and theory to investigate problems of anthropological importance in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and related areas.