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Description

1. xii, 257 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm

Summary

1. "As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate on the societies and on the island people who befriended him. These reflections illuminate continuities and differences between these cultures, but even more they exemplify the power of people to reveal their own history." "Mintz seeks to conjoin his knowledge of the history of Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico - a dynamic past born of a confluence of peoples of a sort that has happened only a few times in human history - with the ways that he heard people speak about themselves and their lives." "Mintz argues that in Jamaica and Haiti, creolization on represented a tremendous creative art by enslaved peoples that creolization was not a passive mixing of cultures, but an effort to create new hybrid institutions and cultural meanings to replace those that had been demolished by enslavement. Globalization is not the new phenomenon we take it to be." "This book is both a summation of Mintz's groundbreaking work in the region and a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. W.E.B. Du Bois lectures

Uniform title

1. W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.

Subject

1. Ethnology > Jamaica
2. Ethnology > Haiti
3. Ethnology > Puerto Rico
4. Culture diffusion > Jamaica
5. Culture diffusion > Haiti
6. Culture diffusion > Puerto Rico
7. Colonization
8. Culture diffusion
9. Ethnology
10. Kreolisierung
11. Ethnologie
12. Kultur
13. Gesellschaft
14. Jamaica > Colonization
15. Haiti > Colonization
16. Puerto Rico > Colonization
17. Haiti
18. Jamaica
19. Puerto Rico
20. Karibik
21. Jamaika

Contents

1. Caribbean anthropology and history -- Jamaica -- Haiti -- Puerto Rico -- Creolization, culture, and social institutions.

Call number

1. JFD 15-4109

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.

Author

1. Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-

Title

1. Three ancient colonies : Caribbean themes and variations / Sidney W. Mintz.

Publisher

1. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. W.E.B. Du Bois lectures
2. W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents
2. Inhaltsverzeichnis

LCCN

1. 2009036043

ISBN

1. 9780674050129 (alk. paper)
2. 0674050126 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFD 15-4109