Scholars and activists, most with one foot in the Caribbean and the other in North America or Britain, argue that acknowledging the presence of the indigenous in Caribbean societies significantly challenges the conventional understandings of the cultural complexity of the modern Caribbean. They also show how the same political and economic processes that have the effect of marginalizing contemporary Amerindians can sometimes provoke if not enable their reproduction as indigenous entities. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)