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Author:
Besson, Jean, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83311921
Title:
Transformations of freedom in the land of the Maroons : creolization in the cockpits, Jamaica / Jean Besson.
Publisher:
Ian Randle Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xx, 367 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Subject:
Maroons--Jamaica--Ethnic identity.
Maroons--Jamaica--Social life and customs.
Blacks--Jamaica.
Group identity--Jamaica.
Ethnohistory--Jamaica.
Jamaica--Ethnic relations.
Jamaica--History.
Ethnohistory.
Maroons.
Jamaica.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and index.
Contents:
The roots of Creolization in the Cockpits -- The Creolization of the commons -- Myal, kinship and the ancestors -- Reinterpreting Accompong Maroon society -- Accompong, Aberdeen and Maroon Town : the Maroon/non-Maroon interface -- Non-Maroon Maroon Town -- 'Slave Master' Pickni' : Meso-Creole ethnicities and narrative transformations of Trelawny Town -- Maroon Town narratives of Maroon descent and Marronage -- The McGhie Maroons and the Maroon Town McGhies -- Maroon Town and Accompong : ritual, tourism and nationhood -- Creolization at the Maroon/non-Maroon interface.
ISBN:
9789766374082
9766374082
OCLC:
(OCoLC)891853451
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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