[PDF.43ou] Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean

Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean

[PDF.ci92] Afro-Creole: Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean

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 | #13740086 in Books |  1997-06 | Original language:English |  9.75 x6.50 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 297 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| An essential book in Caribbean history|By Customer|This is a really key book if you want to understand the culture and history of the Caribbean. Burton successfully takes us beyond the question of African Survivals and European impositions, and gives us a key for thinking in new ways about the Caribbean as a place in itself. Burton writes clearly and there is little jargon to| |"Burton's work is perhaps the best researched, most thoughtful, intellectually provocative study of the complex relationship between history, religion, poetics, culture, and social change especially, but not exclusively, in the English-speaking Caribbean. It i

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 bo...

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