Book
Amotopoan Trails
A recent archaeology of Trio movements
- Author
- J.L.J.A. Mans
- Date
- 01 January 2012
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- Amotopoan Trails A recent archaeology of Trio movements
This volume explores the concept of mobility for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region.
As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the level of the individual. However, as a concept it does not seem to fit with current approaches in Amazonian archaeology, which favour a move away from viewing small mobile groups as models for the deeper past.
Instead of ignoring such ethnographic tyrannies, in this book they are considered to be essential for arriving at a different past. Viewing archaeological mobility as the sum of movements of both people and objects, the empirical part of
Amotopoan Trails focuses on Amotopo, a small contemporary Trio village in the interior of Suriname. The movements of the Amotopoans are tracked and positioned in a century of Trio dynamics, ultimately yielding a recent archaeology of Surinamese-Trio movements for the Sipaliwini River basin (1907-2008).
Alongside the construction of this archaeology, novel mobility concepts are introduced. They provide the conceptual footholds which enable the envisioning of mobility at various temporal scales, from a decade up to a century, the sequence of which has remained a blind spot in Caribbean and Amazonian archaeology.
Jimmy Mans defended his dissertation, Amotopoan Trails, on 26th September 2012 in Leiden.
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-90-8890-098-3
Published in the series "Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde", in co-operation with the Dutch National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden.