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SUMMARY:The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern wo
 rld - María M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University)
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:The early modern Caribbean can come across as a fractured regi
 on whose political history conspired against the cohesion nature conferred
  upon it. And yet\, it shared a maritime culture that transcended politica
 l boundaries and unified the region in unexpected ways. This talk proposes
  nautical technologies-in-use and their supporting infrastructures as func
 tional relations that contributed to this maritime culture and also reorde
 red the region for its inhabitants. It will consider as examples pre-Colum
 bian nautical technology\, the consolidation of a maritime culture within 
 trans-Caribbean smuggling and piratical operations\, and the technological
  infrastructure that supported the kinetic Caribbean.
LOCATION:The Theatre\, Peterhouse
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