The Survival of the Past in The West Indies

1961 ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Gordon Merril
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past

Archaeology of Identity and Dissonance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernice Kurchin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
North Africa ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Multiple Dimensions

In situations of displacement, disruption, and difference, humans adapt by actively creating, re-creating, and adjusting their identities using the material world. This book employs the discipline of historical archaeology to study this process as it occurs in new and challenging environments. The case studies furnish varied instances of people wresting control from others who wish to define them and of adaptive transformation by people who find themselves in new and strange worlds. The authors consider multiple aspects of identity, such as race, class, gender, and ethnicity, and look for ways to understand its fluid and intersecting nature. The book seeks to make the study of the past relevant to our globalized, postcolonized, and capitalized world. Questions of identity formation are critical in understanding the world today, in which boundaries are simultaneously breaking down and being built up, and humans are constantly adapting to the ever-changing milieu. This book tackles these questions not only in multiple dimensions of earthly space but also in a panorama of historical time. Moving from the ancient past to the unknowable future and through numerous temporal stops in between, the reader travels from New York to the Great Lakes, Britain to North Africa, and the North Atlantic to the West Indies.

Future Impossible Communities

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Jossianna Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Special Section ◽  
The West ◽  
Spanish Caribbean ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
Key Interventions

This response essay reviews the six contributions to the special section “Con-Federating the Archipelago: The Confederación Antillana and the West Indies Federation.” These key interventions on the Spanish Caribbean Confederation projects in the nineteenth century and the West Indies Federation in the twentieth century provoke the following questions: Could we call these two Caribbean confederation projects failures if their centrality in Caribbean political imaginaries suggests otherwise? What are some of the insights that these two projects could offer to Caribbean sociohistorical processes, culture, and political developments? Even though these two projects seem to share a similar political goal, they are also radically different. The author reviews the contributions to the special section in dialogue with examples from Puerto Rico in order to assess the critical intervention in theories of nationalism produced by the past projects of federation and the possible futures they give rise to.

scholarly journals Circumstantial evidence for the presence of monk seals in the West Indies

Oryx ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. L. Boyd ◽  
M. P. Stanfield
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Circumstantial Evidence ◽  
Harbour Seal ◽  
Sea Lion ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Monk Seals

Based on interviews with 93 fishermen in northern Haiti and Jamaica during 1997 an assessment was made of the likelihood that monk seals survive in this region of the West Indies. Fishermen were asked to select marine species known to them from randomly arranged pictures: 22.6 per cent (n = 21) selected monk seals. This number was significantly (P < 0.001) greater than the number who selected control species (walrus, harbour seal, and sea-lion) that they were unlikely to have observed. However, it was not significantly different (n = 19, P > 0.1) from the number who selected manatees, which are known to occur in the region in small numbers. More than 95 per cent of respondents also identified species that are known to occur commonly in the region. Further questioning of the 21 respondents who selected monk seals suggested that 16 (78 per cent) of them had seen at least one in the past 1–2 years. Those fishermen that were able to provide further descriptions gave information about size and colour that was consistent with many of these seals being monk seals. It is possible that the Caribbean monk seal is not extinct.

scholarly journals Vore gamle tropekolonier..? – Tropekolonierne som danske erindringssteder

2018 ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Astrid Nonbo Andersen
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The West ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
General Picture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Long Time

The knowledge of the Danish colonial past has for a very long time played a minorrole in the general picture of Danish History in Denmark. Within the past 10-15years however the former Danish tropic colonies in the West Africa, East Indiaand the West Indies have attracted a growing number of Danish visitors in searchfor the colonial past. This has led to a number of renovation projects sponsoredby Danish agents in collaboration with the local authorities in the former tropiccolonies. This article takes its analytical starting point in the French HistorianPierre Nora’s notion of places of memory (lieux de mémoire) and deals with someof the problems of both a philosophical and political kind that spring from thesenew initiatives.

First Admissions of Native-Born and Immigrants to Psychiatric Hospitals in South-East England 1976

1981 ◽  
Vol 139 (6) ◽  
pp. 506-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dean ◽  
D. Walsh ◽  
H. Downing ◽  
E. Shelley
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Expected Number ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
South East England

SummaryIn the past, birthplace has frequently been omitted in completing the Sheet, but in 1976, over 91 per cent of all first admissions to psychiatric hospitals in South-East England were analysed by birthplace, sex, age-group and marital status. First admissions for schizophrenia were five times the expected number for immigrants from New Commonwealth America (the West Indies), four times the expected number for immigrants from New Commonwealth Africa (mostly ethnic Asians) and three times the expected number from India. Immigrants from Pakistan and the remaining New Commonwealth Asian countries did not show a significantly higher than expected number of admissions for schizophrenia, and their first admissions for alcoholic psychosis and alcoholism, psychoneuroses and personality and behaviour disorders were significantly fewer than expected. First admissions for schizophrenia were also significantly more than expected among immigrants from Ireland, Germany and Poland, but not from Italy.

scholarly journals The Spider Genus Trachelas (Araneae, Clubionidae) in the Vest Indies

1972 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur M. Chickering
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deep Appreciation ◽  
National Science ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
Males And Females

As I have frequently done in the past, I am again expressing my deep appreciation for the continued help and encouragement in the pursuit of my studies extended to me by the staff of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. The National Science Foundation has aided me very materially by awarding me Grants GB-18o1 and GB-5o13. Other foundations, not specifically mentioned here, have also aided me in my studies and collecting trips in Central America and the West Indies. Dr. J. G. Sheals and Mr. D. J. Clark, British Museum (Natural History), have kindly loaned me males and females of Trachelas femoralis Simon from St. Vincent, B. W. I.

scholarly journals First North American Records of the Old-World Tramp Ant Syllophopsis sechellensis(Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 473
Author(s):  
James Wetterer
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
West Indies ◽  
New World ◽  
The West ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Arrival ◽  
Tramp Ant ◽  
Old World Tropics

Syllophopsis  sechellensis  (Emery)  (formerly  Monomorium  sechellense) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is a small, inconspicuous ant species native to the Old-World tropics. Syllophopsis sechellensis is widespread in Asia and Australia, and on islands the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. In the New  World,  all  published  records  come  from  West  Indian  islands.  Here,  I report the first records of S. sechellensis from North America: from four sites in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, Florida, more than 1500 km from the closest records in the West Indies. The ants of Florida have been well-studied in the past, so S. sechellensis appears to be a recent arrival.

scholarly journals On the formation of barrier beefs and of the different types of atolls

1903 ◽  
Vol 71 (467-476) ◽  
pp. 412-414 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
The West ◽  
Society Islands ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fiji Islands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Tropical Pacific

The results here presented are based upon observations carried on during the past 25 years in Florida, the Bermudas, Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and the West Indies in the Atlantic. They include in the Pacific the Galapagos, the Hawaiian Islands, the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, the Fiji Islands, and the Coral Reefs and Islands of the tropical Pacific, from the Marquesas to the Paumotus, the Society Islands, the Cook Archipelago, Niue, the Tonga, Ellice, Gilbert, and Marshall Islands, the Carolines and Southern Ladrones, and the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean.

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