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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Historical Landscapes of the Modern World -- Deep Time and Local Pasts -- Beyond Nations, Oceans, and Hemispheres8 -- Historical Landscapes of the Modern World -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 1492: A Different Kind of "Discovery" -- Dover to London, Chalk and Clay -- London: Streetscapes, Strangers -- London to Chester: Midland England -- Chester to Caernarvon: Uplands -- Dublin to Galway: Toward an Atlantic World -- General Reflections over a Glass of Wine -- Elements of Change -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 Indigenous Caribbean Networks in a Globalizing World -- The Precolonial Caribbean -- The Columbian Turn: Exploitation and Enslavement -- Gold and Pearls -- Kalinago Strongholds -- Amerindian-African-European Intercultural Dynamics -- Conclusion: Continuity and Change in the Indigenous Caribbean -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- 4 Rethinking Colonial Maya Peripherality -- Generative Frictions, Salvage, and the Complexes of Conjuncture -- Native Allies and Mythical Conquistadors -- Colonial Site Planning and Territoriality -- Economic Landscapes and Infrastructures of Tribute and Prestige -- Ambivalent and Anxious Landscapes: Inhabiting the Differently Familiar -- Works Cited -- 5 Early Modern Landscapes of Chocolate -- Places of Chocolate -- Changing Places -- Pipil Tacuscalco: Spatial Regimes -- The Place of Tacuscalco -- Sixteenth-Century Tacuscalco: A Battlefield -- Tacuscalco and Colonial Order -- The Economic and Political Place of Colonial Tacuscalco -- The Moral Place and Urban Spaces of Tacuscalco -- From Pueblo to Barrio -- Change in Place -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6 Early-Seventeenth-Century Settlement in Barbados and the Shift to Sugar, Slavery, and Capitalism -- Sugar in Barbados.

"Anthropology: A Global Perspective integrates historical, biological, archaeological, and global approaches to introduce students to the four fields of anthropology. This comprehensive text is founded on four essential themes: the diversity of human societies; the similarities that tie all humans together; the interconnections between the sciences and humanities; and the importance of reducing essentialist beliefs about different cultures and ethnic groups. Authors Raymond Scupin and Christopher DeCorse use an applied perspective to demonstrate how anthropologists use research techniques and methods help solve practical problems, showing students how anthropology is relevant to improving human societies"--

Ghana's past is being destroyed at a rapid rate. Although the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board has in some instances successfully intervened to stop the illicit trading of antiquities, the destruction of archaeological sites as a consequence of development over the past two decades has been staggering and the pace is accelerating. The potential of the legislation that established the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board and empowered it to manage and preserve the country's archaeological past has not been realized. The lack of political action, limited relevant public education, insufficient funding, and the poverty of the majority of the Ghanaian populace have allowed for the widespread destruction of both sites and historic buildings. Conspicuously, both the absence of integrated development planning by the Ghanaian government and the inability of development partners (both foreign and domestic) to recognize the potential value of cultural resources have contributed significantly to the continued loss of the archaeological record. While the antiquities trade is a continuing threat to Ghana's cultural resources, it is, in fact, tourism and economic development that pose the major menace to the country's archaeological past. This article reviews the history of cultural resource management in Ghana, including both traditional attitudes toward preservation and current legislation. Case studies are used to illustrate the problems faced.

This book is about the diverse communities associated with English and British forts of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It casts new light on forts and their communities by asking new questions and applying innovative methodological approaches