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Adjiboto An African Game Of The Bush Negroes Of Dutch Guiana
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Book Synopsis The Myth of The Negro Past by : Melville Herskovits
Download or read book The Myth of The Negro Past written by Melville Herskovits and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.
Download or read book Alabi's World written by Richard Price and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1990-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 18th century, the Dutch colony of Suriname was the envy of all others in the Americas. There, seven hundred Europeans lived off the labor of over four thousand enslaved Africans. Owned by men hell-bent for quick prosperity, the rich plantations on the Suriname river became known for their heights of planter comfort and opulence--and for their depths of slave misery. Slaves who tried to escape were hunted by the planter militia. If found they were publicly tortured. Gradually slaves began to form outlaw communities until nearly one out of every ten Africans in Suriname was helping to build rebel villages in the jungle. This book relates the history of a nation founded by escaped slaves deep in the Latin American rain forest. It tells of their battles for independence, their uneasy truce with the colonial government, and the attempt of their leader, Alabi, to reconcile his people with white law and a white God.
Book Synopsis Mathematics in African History and Cultures by : Paulus Gerdes
Download or read book Mathematics in African History and Cultures written by Paulus Gerdes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes an updated version of the bibliography published in 2004 by the African Mathematical Union. The African Studies Association attributed the original edition a 'ÂÂspecial mention'ÂÂ in the 2006 Conover-Porter Award competition. The book contains over 1600 bibliographic entries. The appendices contain additional bibliographic information on (1) mathematicians of the Diaspora, (2) publications by Africans on the history of mathematics outside Africa, (3) time-reckoning and astronomy in African history and cultures, (4) string figures in Africa, (5) examples of books published by African mathematicians, (6) board games in Africa, (7) research inspired by geometric aspects of the 'ÂÂsona'ÂÂ tradition. The book concludes with several indices (subject, country, region, author, ethnographic and linguistic, journal, mathematicians). Professor Jan Persens of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and president of the African Mathematical Union (2000-2004) wrote the preface.
Book Synopsis The Guiana Maroons by : Richard Price
Download or read book The Guiana Maroons written by Richard Price and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Mathematics in Africa: 1986-1999 by : Paulus Gerdes
Download or read book History of Mathematics in Africa: 1986-1999 written by Paulus Gerdes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam by : John Gabriel Stedman
Download or read book Narrative of Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam written by John Gabriel Stedman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Proceedings of the Executive council and List of members, also section "Review of books".
Book Synopsis Caribbean Transformations by : Arthur H. Niehoff
Download or read book Caribbean Transformations written by Arthur H. Niehoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Afro-American Folk Culture: The West Indies, Central, and South America by : John F. Szwed
Download or read book Afro-American Folk Culture: The West Indies, Central, and South America written by John F. Szwed and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caribbean Society and Culture Notes by :
Download or read book Caribbean Society and Culture Notes written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Warri, Antigua's Mancala Game by : Madeleine Irene Hall
Download or read book Warri, Antigua's Mancala Game written by Madeleine Irene Hall and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Djuka, the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana by : Morton Charles Kahn
Download or read book Djuka, the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana written by Morton Charles Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Caribbeana, 1900-1965: A Topical Bibliography by : Lambros Comitas
Download or read book Caribbeana, 1900-1965: A Topical Bibliography written by Lambros Comitas and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue: Subjects by : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Download or read book Catalogue: Subjects written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue by : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Download or read book Catalogue written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes reports of meetings of the institute.
Download or read book Mancala Games written by Laurence Russ and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mancala has been played for thousands of years. The Complete Mancala Games Book contains descriptions and clearly written rules for both the most popular two-row Mancala games and the rarer three- and four-row versions.
