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2 vols, "The book is organized around the war, carried on by the government in Jamaica, against the body of black people called Maroons, long established in the interior of that island." (Google)
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75 p.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle, Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Hauser,Mark W. (Author) and Florida museum of natural history (Author)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
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Gainesville: University Press of Florida
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269 p., In 18th-century Jamaica, an informal, underground economy existed among enslaved laborers. Utilizes both documentary and archaeological evidence to reveal how slaves practiced their own systematic forms of economic production, exchange, and consumption. Hauser compares the findings from a number of previously excavated sites and presents new analyses that reinterpret these collections in the context of island-wide trading networks
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267 p., Draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.
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64 p., Life story of Bob Marley, the artist who made reggae music a worldwide phenomenon and became the first Jamaican musician to attain stardom in the pop music world.
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182 p., Explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. Beckford highlights how Dub – one of the central features of dancehall culture – can be mobilized as a framework for re-evaluating theology, taking apart doctrine and reconstructing it under the influence of a guiding theme.
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224 p., Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first European settlement in the New World. As fictional personae the maroons continue to weave in and out of oral and literary tales as central and ancient characters of Jamaica's heritage. Identifies the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature and focuses on its essential themes and strategies of discourse for conveying these themes.
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xxvi, 264 : ill., map ; 24 cm, Festive rituals, religious associations, and ethnic reaffirmation of Black Andalusians / Isidoro Moreno -- Presence of Blackness and representation of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian celebrations of the Semana Santa (Eduador).
Bigelow,John (Author) and Scholnick, Robert J. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Location:
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Originally published: New York & London : Putnam, 1851., 214 p, After Jamaican slaves were fully emancipated in 1838, the local economy collapsed. Driven by a belief in the innate inferiority of the black race and bolstered by this apparently disastrous Jamaican example, Americans who defended slavery convinced many that emancipation at home would lead to economic and social chaos. Collecting John Bigelow's vivid firsthand reporting, Jamaica in 1850 challenges that widely held view and demonstrates that Jamaica's troubles were caused not by lazy blacks but by the incompetence of absentee white planters operating within an obsolete colonial system.