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Martin, J.A. (2023)

We navel-string bury here: Landscape history, representation and identity in the Grenada islandscape

Doctoral Thesis
This study explores the process of identity creation in the Caribbean archipelagic space by examining the last five centuries of Grenada’s layered history through detailing and analyzing the major human-environment interactions that have transformed its landscape, particularly following the invasion of Europeans since the 17th century and the establishment of plantation agriculture and slavery (utilizing enslaved Africans and their descendants), village settlements and subsistence agriculture, and much later tourism. It will analyze its landscape transformations by examining land use and settlement patterns of its human occupants from the Indigenous Kali’nago to its current inhabitants via the concept of creolization. Centuries of interactions between and among these various groups of people and the Grenadian environment have created a landscape best described as a palimpsest where layer upon layer of interactions intertwine, overwrite and blend with each other through time. Yet...Show moreThis study explores the process of identity creation in the Caribbean archipelagic space by examining the last five centuries of Grenada’s layered history through detailing and analyzing the major human-environment interactions that have transformed its landscape, particularly following the invasion of Europeans since the 17th century and the establishment of plantation agriculture and slavery (utilizing enslaved Africans and their descendants), village settlements and subsistence agriculture, and much later tourism. It will analyze its landscape transformations by examining land use and settlement patterns of its human occupants from the Indigenous Kali’nago to its current inhabitants via the concept of creolization. Centuries of interactions between and among these various groups of people and the Grenadian environment have created a landscape best described as a palimpsest where layer upon layer of interactions intertwine, overwrite and blend with each other through time. Yet leaving glimpses or blurred pictures of impacts in various and discernable ways, thus creating a long-term biography of this islandscape. By examining the Grenadian palimpsest and analyzing the concept of landscape identity through historical representations and memory-traces embedded in the Creole cultural landscape this study explores the relationship between people and the landscape over time.
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Caribbean
Grenada
Heritage
Cultural Landscape
Identity
Islandscape
Landscape Identity
Palimpsest
Cultural Heritage
All authors
Martin, J.A.
Supervisor
Hofman, C.L.; Kolen, J.C.A.
Co-supervisor
Boomert, A.
Committee
Collins, M.; Degryse, P.; Keurs, P. ter; Jean, J.S.; Phulgence, W.F.; Oostindie, G.J.; Laffoon, J.E.
Qualification
Doctor (dr.)
Awarding Institution
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University
Date
2023-10-04

Funding

Sponsorship
The research leading to this dissertation received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC-Synergy project NEXUS1492, grant agreement nr. 319209.