Local Voices, Global Debates - (Hardcover)

About the Book

How do contemporary communities in the Caribbean engage with their past? This book answers this by bringing local Caribbean voices to talk about archaeological heritage. Each chapter discusses how local researchers create bridges between archaeology, heritage, and communities in different Caribbean countries.

Book Synopsis

What is the role of local Caribbean individuals and communities in creating and perpetuating archaeological heritage? How has archaeological knowledge been integrated into education plans in different countries? This book aims to fill a gap in both archaeological scholarship and popular knowledge by providing a platform for local Caribbean voices to speak about the archaeological heritage of their region. To achieve this, each chapter of the book focuses on identifying and developing strategies that academics, heritage practitioners, and non-scholars from the insular Caribbean can adopt to stimulate a necessary dialogue on how archaeological heritage is used and produced on various academic, political, and social levels.

Contributors are: Zara Ali, Arlene Álvarez, Lisette Roura Alvarez, Irvince Nanichi Auguiste, Victoria Borg O'Flaherty, Lornadale L. Charles, Eldris Con Aguilar, Raymundo A.C.F. Dijkhoff, Matthieu Ecrabet, Kevin Farmer, Cameron Gill, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Katarina Jacobson, Joseph Sony Jean, Debra Kay Palmer, Harold Kelly, Wilhelm Londoño Díaz, Stacey Mac Donald, Jerry Michel, Ashleigh John Morris, Andrea Richards, Kara M. Roopsingh, Pierre Sainte-Luce, Tibisay Sankatsing Nava, and Laurent Christian Ursulet.

About the Author

Joseph Sony Jean, Ph.D. (2019), Leiden University, is a Veni-NWO fellow at Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and Leiden University. He has published on topics related to landscape archaeology and critical heritage studies in the Caribbean.

Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Ph.D (2018), Leiden University, is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at UrbNet, Aarhus University in Denmark. He has published on topics related to landscape and computational archaeology in the Caribbean, as well as on the decolonization of archaeology.