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Black roadways : a study of Jamaican folk life / by Martha Warren Beckwith.
LIBRA 917.292 B386
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckwith, Martha Warren, 1871-1959, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jamaicans.
- Black people--Jamaica.
- Black people.
- Religion.
- Folklore.
- Manners and customs.
- Jamaica.
- Jamaica--Social life and customs.
- Folklore--Jamaica.
- Superstition.
- Physical Description:
- xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf, 243 pages : illustrations, xxii plates (including frontispiece), folded map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina press, 1929.
- Contents:
- The land and its people
- The small settler
- Fishing, trapping, stock-raising
- The market
- The family life
- The burial of the dead
- The spirit world
- Obeah
- The Myal people
- The revivalists
- The Pukkumerians
- The Maroons
- Folk art.
- Notes:
- Includes songs with music.
- "References": pages [229]-233.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8187: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Ink inscription on front free endleaf: F. Henriques. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 2608164
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