The Emperor's Giraffe and Other Stories of

Focuses on little-known moments in history when two cultures--previously unknown or little known to each other--met, and altered the course of history.

Samuel M. Wilson is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is editor of The Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean, coeditor of Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas, and author of Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus and The Archaeology of the Caribbean. Wilson also writes the “Worlds in Contact” column for Natural History magazine.

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(8)

The Columbus Quartet

9

(40)

Columbus, My Enemy

13

(10)

The Admiral and the Chief

23

(8)

Columbus's Competition

31

(8)

Columbus's Comeuppance

39

(10)

Contrast and Coincidence in the Americas

49

(68)

White Legends and Lost Tribes

53

(8)

The Gardeners of Eden

61

(6)

Death and Taxes

67

(8)

Pandora's Bite

75

(8)

The Matter of Smallpox

83

(10)

``That Unmanned, Wild Countrey''

93

(8)

Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca

101

(8)

Pilgrim's Paradox

109

(8)

Encountering the European World

117

(38)

The Emperor's Giraffe

121

(6)

Coffee, Tea, or Opium?

127

(8)

Tripitaka's Journey to the West

135

(8)

Vikings and Eskimos

143

(6)

Disney Dissonance

149

(6)

Caribbean Connections

155

(26)

Saint George and Juncanoo

159

(6)

Caribbean Diasporas

165

(8)

Cricket and Colonialism

173

(8)

The Cultural Richness of the World

181

(30)

Reburying Hatchets

185

(8)

A Texas Powwow

193

(10)

Trickster Treats

203

(8)

Index

211

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