Recontextualizing the Caribbean: Archaeology of Danish Engagement in South India

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

It has long been recognized that the scale, speed, and magnitude of mobility accelerated dramatically after .ca 1500, through physical movement, communication, and crafting.  Despite this recognition, Historical Archaeology has painted itself into an epistemic corner by employing a scale of analysis largely defined by the Atlantic Ocean but requiring mobilities from further afield. The Caribbean is no exception where discussions of mobile assemblages of humans, non-humans and matter are too numerous to count. Such accounts require, recentering to include the ideas, things and people who found tehir origins in sOuth India.. This paper examines the mobilities of humans, non-humans and matter that link the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic through the lens of Danish colonialism. By juxtaposing commercial developments on the Coromandel Coast against Caribbean landscapes, we see the multiple roots through which commercial agriculture and rural industry developed in different regions potentially coalesced in the modern world.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023   •
• Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World

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