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Martha Brae's two histories : European expansion and Caribbean culture-building in Jamaica /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Besson, Jean, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Martha Brae (Jamaica) > History.
Trelawny (Jamaica) > History.
Peasants > Jamaica > Trelawny, Parish of > History.
Blacks > Land tenure > Jamaica > Trelawny, Parish of > History.
Martha Brae (Jamaica) > Historia.
Parroquia de Trelawny (Jamaica) > Historia.
Campesinos > Jamaica > Parroquia de Trelawny.
Negros > Propiedad rustica > Jamaica > Parroquia de Trelawny > Historia.
Table of Contents:
  • Caribbean controversies and anthropological theory
  • Martha Brae's Euro-Caribbean history
  • The origins of Martha Brae's Afro-Caribbean history
  • The free village of Martha Brae
  • Martha Brae's free-village oral tradition
  • Elaborations of the peasant economy
  • The Baptist church, revival ideology, and Rastafarian movement
  • Households, marriage, kinship, and descent.