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Jimmy Mans

Policy officer

Name
Dr. J.L.J.A. Mans
Telephone
+31 71 527 2446
E-mail
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

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Van Steenis
Einsteinweg 2
2333 CC Leiden
Room number A2.13

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