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Caribbean Transformations / Arthur H. Niehoff

Publisher	(London : Taylor and Francis)
Year	2017
Edition	First edition.
Authors	*Niehoff, Arthur H. author

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00184851		Taylor & Francis eBooks Archive Collection (電子ブック)	9781315081755

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Notes	chapter 1 Afro-Caribbeana: An Introduction -- part PART I. SLAVERY, FORCED LABOR AND THE PLANTATION SYSTEM -- chapter 2 Slavery and the Afro-American Worl d -- chapter 3 Slavery and Forced Labor in Puerto Rico -- chapter 4 The History of a Puerto Rican Plantation -- part PART II. CARIBBEAN PEASANTRIES -- chapter 5 The Origins of Reconstituted Peasantries -- chapter 6 The Historical Sociology of Jamaican Villages -- chapter 7 The Origins of the Jamaican Market System -- chapter 8 The Contemporary Jamaican Market System -- chapter 9 Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries -- part PART III. CARIBBEAN NATIONHOOD -- chapter 10 The Case of Haiti -- chapter 11 Caribbean Nationhood: An Anthropological Perspective "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.Caribbean Transformations is divided into three major parts, each preceded by a brief introductory chapter. Part One begins with a look at the African antecedents of the Caribbean, then discusses slavery and the plantation system. Two chapters deal with slavery and forced labor in Puerto Rico and the history of a Puerto Rican plantation. Part Two is concerned with the rise of a Caribbean peasantry--the erstwhile slaves who separated themselves from the plantation system on small plots of land. This creative adaptation led to the growth of a class of rural landowners producing a large part of their own subsistence but also selling to and buying from wider markets. Mintz first discusses the origins of reconstructed peasantries, and then proceeds to the specifics of the origins and history of the peasantry in Jamaica. Part Three turns to Caribbean nationhood--the political and economic forces that affected its shaping and the social structure of its component societies. A separate chapter details the case of Haiti. The book ends with a critique of the implications of Caribbean nationhood from an anthropological perspective, stressing the ways that class, color and other social dimensions continue to play important parts in the organization of Caribbean societies.Caribbean Transformations--lucidly written and presenting broad coverage of both time and space--is essential reading for anthropologists, sociologists, historians and all others interested in the Caribbean, in black studies, in colonial problems, in the relationships between colonial areas and the imperial powers, and in culture change generally."--Provided by publisher HTTP:URL=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315081755 Pub. note=Click here to view.
Subjects	LCSH:Caribbean Area LCSH:Peasants LCSH:Slavery LCSH:Social classes LCSH:Haiti FREE:Anthropology - Soc Sci
Classification	LCC:HN195.2.S6 DC:305.56709729
ID	8000086389
ISBN	9781315081755