The Indigenous People of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) [Paperback]

Samuel M. Wilson (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 266 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Florida; 1st edition (January 10, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813016924
• ISBN-13: 978-0813016924
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A useful introduction, April 4, 2000

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Daniel Albert (Marblehead, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Indigenous People of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) (Paperback)

This collected volume is a useful introduction to the topic. I have used it to prepare lectures on the subject for college students in the context of a broad course on maritime peoples. It is not terribly in depth, however, and most readers will want to move on to heavier works like _The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion_.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good book, January 27, 2008

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B. Rodriguez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Indigenous People of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) (Paperback)

The book is a good description of the people that inhabited the islands when Columbus arrived. He does a great job describing the different peoples (Taino's, Caribes, etc.) and their differences in culture and language. As a Puerto Rican I found it informational on learning more of my non-European ancestry.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point, with good references, May 7, 2010

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This review is from: The Indigenous People of the Caribbean (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series) (Paperback)

This book references so many other works it might be hard to keep up, or find half of these books to read in the first place. Basically devoted to chapters each giving some broad stroke overviews on various topics and people groups and theories of migratory patterns, I think this is an excellent place to start. I would probably compliment this with some more recent works by Maximilian C. Forte for the next step of reading.