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

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

Imprint:Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.

Descriptionx, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.

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