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Author : Sally Price
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472082183
Explores the world of the Saramaka Maroons of Suriname and the status of women as reflected in social structure and art
Author : Ruth Finnegan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781532645051
The Limba are rice farmers living in the hills of northern Sierra Leone who have, until recently, been somewhat despised by their neighbours. Yet they possess a subtle and fascinating literature, as illustrated by this detailed study of their stories, collected and translated by Dr. Finnegan. Their literary and artistic value emerges clearly when the significance of their ‘oral’ character is realized. The introductory chapters full consider such points as the importance of the actual delivery, the part played by the story-teller, and the changing forms arising from the originality of individual narrators. The book throws light on the general study of oral composition and performance as well as on the literary spirit of a previously unstudied West African people.
Author : Queen Afua
Publisher : One World
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307559517
The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing—featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women’s bodies and souls “This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.”—Jada Pinkett Smith Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. With love, wisdom, and passion, Queen Afua guides us to accept our mission and our mantle as Sacred Women—to heal ourselves, the generations of women in our families, our communities, and our world.
Author : Judith Carney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520949539
The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods—millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the "Asian" long bean, for example—are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding. In this exciting, original, and groundbreaking book, Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff draw on archaeological records, oral histories, and the accounts of slave ship captains to show how slaves' food plots—"botanical gardens of the dispossessed"—became the incubators of African survival in the Americas and Africanized the foodways of plantation societies.
Author : Ira Berlin,Philip D. Morgan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0714641723
Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.
Author : Johnnetta B. Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 9780029064412
Author : Judith A. Carney
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674029217
Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. Rice accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. By the middle of the eighteenth century, rice plantations in South Carolina and the black slaves who worked them had created one of the most profitable economies in the world. Black Rice tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence, the vital significance of rice in West African society for a millennium before Europeans arrived and the slave trade began. The standard belief that Europeans introduced rice to West Africa and then brought the knowledge of its cultivation to the Americas is a fundamental fallacy, one which succeeds in effacing the origins of the crop and the role of Africans and African-American slaves in transferring the seed, the cultivation skills, and the cultural practices necessary for establishing it in the New World. In this vivid interpretation of rice and slaves in the Atlantic world, Judith Carney reveals how racism has shaped our historical memory and neglected this critical African contribution to the making of the Americas.
Author : J J ROBINSON
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483294391
Archaeology of Frontiers & Boundaries
Author : Sally Price,Richard Price
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0807085510
Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora Lavishly illustrated with more than 350 images, this groundbreaking new book traces traditions in woodcarving, textiles, clothing, and jewelry created by the Maroon people of Suriname and French Guiana.
Author : Eli Bartra
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822331705
DIVAnalyzes Latin American and Caribbean folk art from a feminist perspective, considering the issue of gender in the production and circulation of popular art produced by women./div
Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504028943
When John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of Five Years Expedition was first published in 1796—a bowdlerized edition “full of lies and nonsense”—Stedman claimed to have burned two thousand copies. It nevertheless became an immediate popular success. A first-hand account of an eighteenth-century slave society, including graphic accounts of the worlds of both masters and slaves, it also contained vivid descriptions of exotic plants and animals, of military campaigns, and of romantic adventures. Illustrated by William Blake, Francesco Bartolozzi, and others, Stedman’s work was quickly translated into a half-dozen languages and was eventually published in over twenty-five different editions. The Prices’ acclaimed critical edition is based on Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of a flourishing slave society. The Prices restore early omissions involving Stedman’s horror at the Dutch planters’ use of casual torture to discipline their slaves; his love and admiration for Joanna, his mulatto mistress; his strong belief in racial equality; and his outrage that “in 20 Years two millions of People are murdered to Provide us with Coffee & Sugar.” Freed from its original publisher’s censorship, Stedman’s Narrative stands as one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Author : Norman E. Whitten,Arlene Torres
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0253211948
Shows regional Black history.
Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421412696
The famed account of 18th-century slavery in South America, “made more readable by moderate editorial changes . . . A well-accomplished abridgment” (Colonial Latin American Historical Review). This abridgment of Richard and Sally Price’s acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on John Gabriel Stedman’s original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.
Author : Isidore Okpewho,Carole Boyce Davies,Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0253214947
"This book examines the character of New World black cultures and their relationships with the plural societies within which they function. This volume seeks a balanced look at the fate of the African presence in Western society as well as insights into the sources of periodic conflict between blacks and others."--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004388062
Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation offers diverse perspectives on the presence of the Guianese Maroon at the twentieth-first century, and on the contemporary lives of the descendants of those who fled from slavery in the Americas.