Three Ancient Colonies

Author : Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674066212

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Three Ancient Colonies by Sidney W. Mintz Pdf

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 represented a tremendous creative act 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.

Author : Laurent Dubois
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674968837

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The Banjo by Laurent Dubois Pdf

American slaves drew on memories of African musical traditions to construct instruments from carved-out gourds covered with animal skin. Providing a sense of rootedness, solidarity, and consolation, banjo picking became an essential part of black plantation life, and its unmistakable sound remains versatile and enduring today, Laurent Dubois shows.

Author : Sidney Wilfred Mintz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393007316

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Worker in the Cane by Sidney Wilfred Mintz Pdf

Worker in the Cane is both a profound social document and a moving spiritual testimony. Don Taso portrays his harsh childhood, his courtship and early marriage, his grim struggle to provide for his family. He tells of his radical political beliefs and union activity during the Depression and describes his hardships when he was blacklisted because of his outspoken convictions. Embittered by his continuing poverty and by a serious illness, he undergoes a dramatic cure and becomes converted to a Protestant revivalist sect. In the concluding chapters the author interprets Don Taso's experience in the light of the changing patterns of life in rural Puerto Rico. This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.

Author : West India Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:D0001124973

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Chronicle by West India Committee Pdf

Author : Dēmētrios V. Grammenos,Elias K. Petropoulos
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Black Sea Region
ISBN : UOM:39015070947893

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Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea 2 by Dēmētrios V. Grammenos,Elias K. Petropoulos Pdf

This extensive publication aims to communicate to the widest possible readership a collection of papers that, for the main part, deal with established work in progress at sites of ancient Greek cities on the Black Sea, and the broader region.

Author : David Graeber,David Wengrow
Publisher : Signal
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771049835

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber,David Wengrow Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89114840069

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The Southern Historian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
ISBN : NYPL:33433081924163

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History of the Colony of New Haven by Edward Rodolphus Lambert Pdf

Author : Louis Edward Hills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Central America
ISBN : WISC:89100045871

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Historical Data from Ancient Records and Ruins of Mexico and Central America by Louis Edward Hills Pdf

Author : Suzana Sawyer
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822385752

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Crude Chronicles by Suzana Sawyer Pdf

Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements. Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, re-deployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality—that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging—as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.

Author : George Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : United States
ISBN : UGA:32108001228264

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History of the Colonization of the United States by George Bancroft Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UVA:X030737031

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Library of Universal Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1644 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Classical geography
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2V1X

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith Pdf

Author : Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351530040

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Caribbean Transformations by Sidney W. Mintz Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UVA:X030760262

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Chambers's New Handy Volume American Encyclopædia by Anonim Pdf