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Transformations of freedom in the land of the Maroons : Creolization in the cockpits, Jamaica / Jean Besson.
Van Pelt Library F2191.B55 B47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Besson, Jean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maroons--Jamaica.
- Maroons.
- Ethnohistory.
- Jamaica.
- Ethnohistory--Jamaica.
- Jamaica--History.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 367 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Kingston [Jamaica] : Ian Randle Publishers, 2016.
- Contents:
- The roots of Creolization in the Cockpits
- The Creolization of the commons
- Myal, kinship and the ancestors
- Reinterpreting Accompong Maroon society
- Accompong, Aberdeen and Maroon Town : the Maroon/non-Maroon interface
- Non-Maroon Maroon Town
- 'Slave Master' Pickni' : Meso-Creole ethnicities and narrative transformations of Trelawny Town
- Maroon Town narratives of Maroon descent and Marronage
- The McGhie Maroons and the Maroon Town McGhies
- Maroon Town and Accompong : ritual, tourism and nationhood
- Creolization at the Maroon/non-Maroon interface.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789766374082
- 9766374082
- OCLC:
- 891853451
- Publisher Number:
- 99967416473
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