Caribbean Transformations

ISBN-13: 9780202309576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str.

Sidney W. Mintz

Opis

Contact and clash, amalgamation and accommodation, resistance and change have marked the history of the Caribbean islands. It is a unique region where people under the stress of slavery had to improvise, invent and literally create forms of human association through which their pasts and the symbolic interpretation of their present could be structured.

Spis treści

Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Afro-Caribbeana: An Introduction, PART I. SLAVERY, FORCED LABOR AND THE PLANTATION SYSTEM, 2. Slavery and the Afro-American World, 3. Slavery and Forced Labor in Puerto Rico, 4. The History of a Puerto Rican Plantation, PART II. CARIBBEAN PEASANTRIES, 5. The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries, 6. The Historical Sociology of Jamaican Villages, 7. The Origins of the Jamaican Market System, 8. The Contemporary Jamaican Market System, 9. Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries, PART III. CARIBBEAN NATIONHOOD, 10. The Case of Haiti, 11. Caribbean Nationhood: An Anthropological Perspective, References, Index

O autorze

Sidney W. Mintz