On today’s episode, Jessica chats with Jonathan Rodriguez (3rd year PhD student in the Applied Anthropology program at the University of South Florida) about Maroon heritage in Dominica. We talk about how he got interested in archaeology and this topic, as well as how his Army service and Anthropology training influenced his experience with each. We also talk about his upcoming Fulbright research in Dominica, where he will use geospatial methods, archaeology, and oral history to learn more about and amplify the voices of a community that purposefully left little evidence of themselves in the archaeological record. Finally we talk about the networks between Maroon communities and diversity of Maroon community experiences across the Caribbean, as well as Maroon efforts today to be recognized as Indigenous peoples.

Transcripts

• For rough transcripts of this episode go to https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices/82

Links

• Heritage Voices on the APN
• Create Caribbean Research Institute
• Anthropology doctoral candidate selected as USF’s first student veteran recipient of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program
• Lennox Honychurch’s 2017 book In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
• Book edited by Polly Pattullo (2015) Your Time Is Done Now: Slavery, Resistance, and Defeat: The Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814)
• YouTube video from Dominica Maroon scholar, Neil Vaz, “DOMINICA TRIP: Discovering Afro-Maroon History via Theater and Hiking”
• Maroon Gathering
• News Article “Maroon gathering in Dominica advances effort for global recognition of maroons as indigenous people”
• Justin Dunnavant’s 2021 article “In the Wake of Maritime Marronage”
• Justin Dunnavant’s 2021 article “Have confidence in the sea: Maritime Maroons and Fugitive Geographies”
• Justin Dunnavant, Steven Wernke, and Lauren Kohut's 2023 article "Counter-Mapping Maroon Cartographies: GIS and Anticolonial Modeling in St. Croix"

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