Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editor: Neil L. Whitehead -- Acknowledgements / Editor: Neil L. Whitehead -- Introduction / Neil L. Whitehead -- Island Carib archaeology / Arie Boomert -- Language contact, war, and Amerindian historical tradition / Berend J. Hoff -- The Island Caribs / Jalil Sued Badillo -- Ethnic plurality and cultural continuity in the native Caribbean / Neil L. Whitehead -- Elegy for a dying race / Peter Hulme -- Towards romanticized Amerindian identities among Caribbean peoples / Jay B. Haviser -- Communicating Caribness / Charles J.M.R.C. Gullick -- Back Matter -- Index / Editor: Neil L. Whitehead.

Wolves from the sea brings together the latest work of leading authorities on the archaeology, linguistics, history, and socio-cultural anthropology of native Caribbean groups, particularly that of the Island Carib. In each of these disciplines orthodox theories are critically assessed and new directions for interdisciplinary research suggested. A central theme that emerges from this volume is the acknowledgement of the plurality of ethnic identities that greeted Columbus and a rejection of the way in which subsequent anthropology has blindly accepted colonial ethnological schema. The seven contributions in this volume represent the outcome of an international symposium, held in Leiden. The author are Arie Boomert, Berend J. Hoff, Jalil Sued Badillo, Neil L. Whitehead, Peter Hulme, Jay B. Haviser and Charles J.M.R.C. Gullick. See Less

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