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Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Christmas Mummings in Jamaica written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen E. A. Monteith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401085
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Jamaica in Slavery and Freedom written by Kathleen E. A. Monteith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jamaica's rich history has been the subject of many books, articles and papers. This collection of eighteen original essays considers aspects of Jamaican history not covered in more general histories of the island, and illluminates more recent developments in Jamaican and West Indian history." "Unique in its interdisciplinary approach, the collection emphasizes the relevance of history to everyday life and the development of a national identity, culture and economy. The essays are organized in three sections: Historiography and Sources; Society, Culture and Heritage; and Economy, Labour and Politics, with contributions from scholars in the Departments of History, Literatures in English and Political Sciences and from the Main Library, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica." -- Book Jacket.
Author : Olive Lewin
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ISBN 13 : 9789766400286
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book "Rock it Come Over" written by Olive Lewin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the music and lore of Jamaica from the early 16th century through emancipation in 1838 to the mid-20th century. Olive Lewin explores the role of music in the lives of slaves and explores the life and beliefs of the Kumina cult queen, Imogene Queenie Kennedy.
Author : Frederic G. Cassidy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401276
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Jamaican English written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.
Author : Margaret R. Robertson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 177282352X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Newfoundland mummers' Christmas house-visit written by Margaret R. Robertson and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the practice of mummery in Newfoundland including a discussion of mummering time, groups, costumes, and behaviour. The author argues that mummery reflects cultural values and is a ritual response to a liminal state.
Author : Dianne M. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198039085
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Three Eyes for the Journey written by Dianne M. Stewart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of African-derived religious traditions have generally focused on their retention of African elements. This emphasis, says Dianne Stewart, slights the ways in which communities in the African diaspora have created and formed new religious meaning. In this fieldwork-based study Stewart shows that African people have been agents of their own religious, ritual, and theological formation. She examines the African-derived and African-centered traditions in historical and contemporary Jamaica: Myal, Obeah, Native Baptist, Revival/Zion, Kumina, and Rastafari, and draws on them to forge a new womanist liberation theology for the Caribbean.
Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824840712
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian Mythology written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ku and Hina—man and woman—were the great ancestral gods of heaven and earth for the ancient Hawaiians. They were life's fruitfulness and all the generations of mankind, both those who are to come and those already born. The Hawaiian gods were like great chiefs from far lands who visited among the people, entering their daily lives sometimes as humans or animals, sometimes taking residence in a stone or wooden idol. As years passed, the families of gods grew and included the trickster Maui, who snared the sun, and fiery Pele of the volcano. Ancient Hawaiians lived by the animistic philosophy that assigned living souls to animals, trees, stones, stars, and clouds, as well as to humans. Religion and mythology were interwoven in Hawaiian culture; and local legends and genealogies were preserved in song, chant, and narrative. Martha Beckwith was the first scholar to chart a path through the hundreds of books, articles, and little-known manuscripts that recorded the oral narratives of the Hawaiian people. Her book has become a classic work of folklore and ethnology, and the definitive treatment of Hawaiian mythology. With an introduction by Katherine Luomala.
Author : Joseph J. Williams
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica written by Joseph J. Williams and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica is a book that is the result of the author spending time in Jamaica and gathering together the material that exists within it, from unique sources such as contemporary newspapers, legal archives, and early accounts. Chapters include Ashanti cultural influence in Jamaica, Jamaican witchcraft, applied magic, ghosts, poltergeists and funeral customs.
Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Hussay Festival in Jamaica written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094336
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions written by Patrick Taylor and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions is the definitive reference for Caribbean religious phenomena from a Caribbean perspective. Generously illustrated, this landmark project combines the breadth of a comparative approach to religion with the depth of understanding of Caribbean spirituality as an ever-changing and varied historical phenomenon. Organized alphabetically, entries examine how Caribbean religious experiences have been shaped by and have responded to the processes of colonialism and the challenges of the postcolonial world. Systematically organized by theme and area, the encyclopedia considers religious traditions such as Vodou, Rastafari, Sunni Islam, Sanatan Dharma, Judaism, and the Roman Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist churches. Detailed subentries present topics such as religious rituals, beliefs, practices, specific historical developments, geographical differences, and gender roles within major traditions. Also included are entries that address the religious dimensions of geographical territories that make up the Caribbean. Representing the culmination of more than a decade of work by the associates of the Caribbean Religions Project, The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religions will foster a greater understanding of the role of religion in Caribbean life and society, in the Caribbean diaspora, and in wider national and transnational spaces.
Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Notes on Jamaican Ethnobotany written by Martha Warren Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736595
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music written by Anand Prahlad and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music" Swami Anand Prahlad looks at the contexts and origins of these proverbs, using them as a cultural sheet music toward understanding the history of Jamaican culture, Rastafari religion, and the music that isthat culture's worldwide voice.
Author : Jerrilyn McGregory
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496834801
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book One Grand Noise written by Jerrilyn McGregory and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world’s most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colonialism, Boxing Day is observed throughout Africa and parts of the African diaspora, but, unlike Trinidadian Carnival and Mardi Gras, fewer know of Bermuda’s Gombey dancers, Bahamian Junkanoo, Dangriga’s Jankunú and Charikanari, St. Croix’s Crucian Christmas Festival, and St. Kitts’s Sugar Mas. One Grand Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the use of spectacular vernacular to metaphorically dramatize such tropes as “one grand noise,” “foreday morning,” and from “back o’ town.” In cultural solidarity and an obvious critique of Western values and norms, revelers engage in celebratory sounds, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and dancing with abandon along thoroughfares usually deemed anathema to them. Folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory demonstrates how the cultural producers in various island locations ritualize Boxing Day as a part of their struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in accordance with time and space. Based on ethnographic study undertaken by McGregory, One Grand Noise explores Boxing Day as part of a creolization process from slavery into the twenty-first century. McGregory traces the holiday from its Egyptian origins to today and includes chapters on the Gombey dancers of Bermuda, the evolution of Junkanoo/Jankunú in The Bahamas and Belize, and J'ouvert traditions in St. Croix and St. Kitts. Through her exploration of the holiday, McGregory negotiates the ways in which Boxing Day has expanded from small communal traditions into a common history of colonialism that keeps alive a collective spirit of resistance.
Author : Vassar College. Folk-lore Foundation
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation written by Vassar College. Folk-lore Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard D. E. Burton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722433
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Afro-Creole written by Richard D. E. Burton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions—including those in religion, music, food, dress, and family structure—were transformed by interaction with European and indigenous forces to create the particular cultures of Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti. He demonstrates how the resulting Afro-Creole cultures have both challenged and reinforced the social, political, and economic status quo in these countries.Jamaican slaves opposed slavery in many ways and one of the most important, Burton suggests, was the development of Afro-Christianity. He pays particular attention to the African-derived Christmas celebration of Jonkonnu as an expression of opposition and then documents religion in the post-slavery period, with an emphasis on Rastafarianism in Jamaica and Vodou in Haiti. The element of play has always figured importantly in Afro-Caribbean life. Burton examines the evolution of carnival and calypso in Trinidad and describes the significance of cricket in defining Caribbean national identity. Based on ten years of research, Afro-Creole draws on historical, anthropological, sociological, and literary sources. Burton characterizes the emergence of Caribbean identity with three different national flavors and demonstrates how culture both reflects and impacts people's changing sense of their own political power.
Author : Dale Cockrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521568289
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Demons of Disorder written by Dale Cockrell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of blackface minstrels in the first half of the nineteenth century.
