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Author Burton, Richard D. E., 1946-2008.

Title Afro-Creole : power, opposition, and play in the Caribbean / Richard D.E. Burton.

Publication Info. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.

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 Moore Stacks  F1874 .B8 1997    Available  ---
Description x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
Contents From African to Afro-Creole : the making of Jamaican slave culture, 1655-1838 -- Resistance and opposition in Jamaica, 1800-1834 -- In the shadow of the whip : religion and opposition in Jamaica, 1834-1992 -- The carnival complex -- Masquerade, possesion, and power in the Caribbean.
Subject Jamaica -- Civilization -- African influences.
Jamaica.
Civilization.
Trinidad and Tobago -- Civilization -- African influences.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Haiti -- Civilization -- African influences.
Haiti.
Slavery -- West Indies -- History.
Slavery.
West Indies.
History.
Creoles -- Jamaica -- Religion.
Creoles.
Religion.
Creoles -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Creoles -- Haiti -- Religion.
Government, Resistance to -- West Indies -- History.
Government, Resistance to.
West Indies -- Race relations.
Race relations.
ISBN 0801432499 cloth alkaline paper