Andrew Rowen
Author
Andrew Rowen has devoted ten years to researching the history leading to the first encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean’s Taíno peoples, including visiting sites where Columbus and Taíno chieftains lived, met, and fought. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Harvard Law School and has long been interested in the roots of religious intolerance.
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Dec. 13, 2017
Encounters Unforeseen: A Bicultural Retelling of 1492 with Andrew Rowen
In this Conversations episode, This Anthro Life hosts Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins are joined by author Andrew Rowen to discuss his new novel, Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold . Coming in the months trailing the 525th anniversary of Christopher Columbus ’s (or Cristobal Colon’s) voyage to the America’s, Rowen’s novel seeks to add some much needed depth to the modern myths on the subject. Encounters Unforeseen doesn’t start at the (in)famous voyage, or even in Europe. Instead, The drama ...
Guest: Andrew Rowen