Three ancient colonies : Caribbean themes and variations / Sidney Wilfred Mintz

By:

Mintz, Sidney Wilfred, 1922-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: The W.E.B. Du Bois lecturesPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010Description: xii, 257 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780674050129

Subject(s): DDC classification:

305.8009729 22

Contents:

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

Review: 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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	National Library of India New English - Main Stack Division	New English	E 305.8009729 M 668 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		PUR000567031ENG

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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

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