Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica

by Jean Besson

Book Overview

Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere.

Located at the gateway to the New World in the plantation heartlands of the Americas, the settlement of Martha Brae, Jamaica, has witnessed the unfolding of two distinct yet interrelated histories. Exploring...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854093
• ISBN13: 9780807854099
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"