This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions--including those in religion, music, food, dress, and family structure--were transformed by interaction with European and indigenous forces to create the particular cultures of Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti. He demonstrates how the resulting Afro-Creole cultures have both challenged and reinforced the social, political, and economic status quo in these countries. Jamaican slaves opposed slavery in many ways and one of the most important, Burton suggests, was the development of Afro-Christianity. He pays particular attention to the African-derived Christmas celebration of Jonkonnu as an expression of opposition and then documents religion in the post-slavery period, with an emphasis on Rastafarianism in Jamaica and Vodou in Haiti. The element of play has always figured importantly in Afro-Caribbean life. Burton examines the evolution of carnival and calypso in Trinidad and describes the significance of cricket in defining Caribbean national identity. Based on ten years of research, Afro-Creole draws on historical, anthropological, sociological, and literary sources. Burton characterizes the emergence of Caribbean identity with three different national flavors and demonstrates how culture both reflects and impacts people's changing sense of their own political power.
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It is this passage from "Guinea" to "créole," as lived by the slaves of Jamaica, that this chapter sets out to explore as rigorously and completely as the available historical accounts permit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jamet carnival, djab djabs, respectability system, carnival masques, crab antics, cultural creolization, creole slaves, negro village, midnight robbers, reputation system, labor riots, rum shop, tontons macoutes, magical mirror Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indian, The Carnival Complex, West Indies, Morant Bay, Port of Spain, Haile Selassie, United States, Good White Man, World War, Black River, Free Coloureds, Bob Marley, Calvary Hill, East Indians, Leonard Howell, Michael Manley, Barry Chevannes, Drax Hall, Promised Land, Queen Victoria, Thomas Thistlewood, Eric Williams, Miss Cleothilde, Montego Bay, Paul Bogle New!
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It is this passage from "Guinea" to "créole," as lived by the slaves of Jamaica, that this chapter sets out to explore as rigorously and completely as the available historical accounts permit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jamet carnival, djab djabs, respectability system, carnival masques, crab antics, cultural creolization, creole slaves, negro village, midnight robbers, reputation system, labor riots, rum shop, tontons macoutes, magical mirror Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Indian, The Carnival Complex, West Indies, Morant Bay, Port of Spain, Haile Selassie, United States, Good White Man, World War, Black River, Free Coloureds, Bob Marley, Calvary Hill, East Indians, Leonard Howell, Michael Manley, Barry Chevannes, Drax Hall, Promised Land, Queen Victoria, Thomas Thistlewood, Eric Williams, Miss Cleothilde, Montego Bay, Paul Bogle New!
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- Beyond A Boundary by C. L. R. James on page 175, page 176, and Back Matter
- The History of Jamaica. Or, A General Survey of the Antient and Modern State of That Island: With Reflections etc. Volume III (Research Library of Colonial Americana) by Edward Long on page 26, page 63, and Back Matter
- King of Kings by Susan Hill on page 106, page 123, and page 149
- Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin on page 154, and Back Matter
- The Anthropology of Performance (PAJ Books) by Victor Turner on page 219, and Back Matter
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- The Language of Dress: Resistance and Accommodation in Jamaica, 1750-1890 by Steeve O. Buckridge on page 97, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nation Dance: Religion, Identity and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean by Patrick Taylor on page 91, page 99, and page 103
- Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith on page 141, and Back Matter
- Modernism, the Visual, and Caribbean Literature by Mary Lou Emery in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World by Trevor Burnard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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