Jimmy Mans
Policy officer
- Name
- Dr. J.L.J.A. Mans
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2446
- j.l.j.a.mans@arch.leidenuniv.nl
Jimmy Mans defended his dissertation, Amotopoan Trails, on 26 September 2012. He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher as a member of Corinne Hofman's VICI project.
Amotopoan Trails: A recent archaeology of Trio movements
Dissertation research: In this study the concept of mobility is explored 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.
Policy officer
- Faculteit Archeologie
- Archeologie Faculteitsbureau
- Hofman C.L., Rostain S.M., Mans J.L.J.A. & Hoogland M.L.P. (2022), Constructing from the invisible: conceptualizing Indigenous village layout and dynamics in the Circum-Caribbean, Ethnoarchaeology 13(1-2): .
- Shafie T., Schoch D., Mans J.L.J.A., Hofman C.L. & Brandes U. (2017), Hypergraph Representations: A Study of Carib Attacks on Colonial Forces, 1509-1700, Journal of Historical Network Research 1(1): 52-70.
- Linde S. van der & Mans J. (2015), Visualising Values in the Caribbean: A Creative Approach to Value Assessment, Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 17(3): 257-269.
- Scholz A. & Mans J.L.J.A. (2014), Menschen und Dinge aus der Guayana-Region – als Netzwerk gedacht. In: , Von der Leidenschaft zu finden: Die Amazonien-Sammlung. München: Museum Fünf Kontinente.
- Carlin E.B. & Mans J.L.J.A. (2014), Movement through time in the Southern Guianas: Deconstructing the Amerindian kaleidoscope. In: Carlin E.B., Leglise I., Migge B. & Tjon Sie Fat P.S. (Eds.), In and out of Suriname: Language, mobility and identity. Leiden: Brill Publisher.
- Mans J.L.J.A. (2014), Contemporary and historical indigenous-Caribbean archaeologist. Archaeology in Transition Symposium, Leiden. 25 September 2014 - 26 September 2014. [conference poster].
- Mans J.L.J.A. & Frederick C. (2014), 'What is archaeology?’ Primary School Salybia (Dominica). [lecture].
- Mol A.A.A. & Mans J.L.J.A. (2013), Old-boy networks in the indigenous Caribbean. In: Knappett C. (Ed.), Regional network analysis in archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 307-332.
- Hofman C.L., Ulloa Hung J., Samson A.V.M., Mans J.L.J.A., Keehnen F.W.M., Mickleburgh H.L., Laffoon J.E., Duijvenbode A. van, Knippenberg S., Breukel T.W., Guzman A., Ruiter S. de, Rodríguez Ramos R., Pagán Jiménez J., Kulstad P.M., Keegan W.F., Hoogland M.L.P. & Hull B. (2013), Universidad y Diversidad en el Caribe Amerindio / Unity and Diversity in the Amerindian Caribbean. Santo Domingo.
- Mans J. (2013), Audiovisual material for exhibition 'Unidad y diversidad en el Caribe Amerindio' (Museo del Hombre Dominicano). [other].
- Mans J.L.J.A. (2013), Digging up the history of the Caribbean (Audiovisuals) (fastfacts.nl). [other].
- Mans J.L.J.A. (2012), Amotopoan trails: A recent archaeology of Trio movements. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
- Mans J.L.J.A. (26 September 2012), Amotopoan trails : a recent archaeology of Trio movements (Dissertatie, Faculty of Archeology, Leiden University) Mededelingen van het Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde no. 41. Leiden: Sidestone Press. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Hofman C.L., Carlin E.B.
- Mans J.L.J.A. (2011), Trio dynamics and the Amotopoan flux. In: Hofman C.L. & Duijvenbode A. (Eds.), Communities in contact: Essays in archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnography of the Amerindian circum-Caribbean. Leiden: Sidestone Press. 205-222.
- Hofman C.L., Boomert A. & Mans J.L.J.A. (2011), Complexity, continuity, and reorganization: The case of coastal connections between Northern South America and the Caribbean Basin. In: Aldenderfer M. & Lanata J.L. (Eds.), Oxford handbook of South American archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Mans J.L.J.A. (2009), An ethnoarchaeological perspective on a century of Trio movement: a preliminary report, Proceedings of the 15th international congress of the European association of historians of Latin America. . Leiden.
- Mans J.L.J.A. (2009), De archeologische mythe en de hedendaagse Trio, Oso: Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse taalkunde, letterkunde, cultuur en geschiedenis 28(1): 74-89.
- Hofman C.L. & Mans J.L.J.A. (2006), Prehistoric Saba. A view from the past. A popular scientific documentary on the work of Hofman and Hoogland on the island Saba. [other].