Kenneth M Bilby
Biographic Data
| ID | 137972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth M Bilby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bilby |
| SIGNATURE | BILBY K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1. [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Enacting Power
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection fr…
Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
Surviving Secularization: Masking the Spirit in the Jankunu (John Canoe) Festivals of the Caribbean
Jankunu (Jonkonnu, Junkanoo), an Afro-Caribbean Yuletide tradition centering on masked dance, is generally characterized as a secular festival. This article presents contemporary ethnographic evidence showing that certain older variants of the tradition remain closely connected with African-derived religious concepts and practices. On the basis of this new evidence, the author argues for a reexamination and reevaluation of the historical signific…
Jamesie, King of Scratch (DVD) by Andrea E. Leland
True‐Born Maroons
True-Born Maroons
The explorer as hero: Le Fidèle Apatou' in the French wilderness
Reconstructs the life story and activities of the Aluku Maroon Captain Apatu in French Guiana. Author describes how Apatu aligned with and aided French explorer Jules Cerveaux in exploring the Amazon region in the late 1870s, and maintained contacts with other French colonial figures. Partly because his role and achievements in colonial expansion were valued by the French, Apatu became an important intermediary between the French and the Aluku Ma…
Aleke: New Music and New Identities in the Guianas
On the northeastern coast of South America in Suriname and French Guiana, live six Maroon peoples--the Saramaka, Ndyuka, Paramaka, Aluku, Matawai, and Kwinti. Descended from enslaved Africans who escaped Dutch plantations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, until recently they have remained relatively isolated in the interior rain forests
Tracking the Caribbean sound: Three Current Hits
First paragraph]Zouk: World Music in the West lndies. JOCELYNE GuiLBAULT (with GAGE AVERILL, ÉDOUARD BENOIT & GREGORY RABESS). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xxv + 279 pp. and compact disk. (Cloth US$ 55.00, Paper US$ 27.75) Calypso Calaloo: Early Carnival Music in Trinidad. DONALD R. HlLL. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. xvi + 344 pp. and compact disk. (Cloth US$ 49.95, Paper US$ 24.95) Calypso & Society in Pre-Indep…
Seeds of Change
Seeds of Change National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (October 1991 through May 1993
The Boni Maroon Wars in Suriname. Wim Hoogbergen
Divided loyalties: Local politics and the play of states among the Aluku
Aluku village of Kotika in Suriname serves as an example how political alignments sometimes influence the definition of ethnic identities and interethnic relations. The Alukus in French Guiana and their Surinamese Maroon neighbours the Ndjuka and Paramaka show evidence of increasingly growing apart, even though these tribes possess similar cultures. Political separation thus heightens cultural differences
The half still untold: Recent literature on Reggae and Rastafari
Two Sister Pikni”: A Historical Tradition of Dual Ethnogenesis in Eastern Jamaica
The treacherous feast: A Jamaican Maroon historical myth
On June 6, 1796, an entire community of black Jamaicans, numbering nearly 600, set sail reluctantly from Port Royal, en route to Halifax, where an uncertain future awaited them.The voyage was not of their own making.Victims of British deceit during the protracted conflict which has come to be known as the "Second Maroon War", these people had been thrust int0 the realization of their own worst fears.The Trelawny Maroons, as they were called, were…
Black thoughts from the Caribbean: I-Deology at Home and Abroad
In 1953 the anthropologist George Eaton Simpson carried out a study of religious cults in the severely depressed outskirts of the Jamaican capital of Kingston. There, in the midst of dire poverty, he happened upon a sociological goldmine. Alongside the Pocomanian and Revivalist traditionalists, with their otherworldly blends of Christian doctrine and African survivals, was blossoming a newer phenomenon which could not have failed to whet a social…
How the ýolder headsý talk: A Jamaican Maroon spirit possession language and its relationship to the creoles of Suriname and Sierra Leone
The Kromanti dance of the windward maroons of Jamaica
Introduction1 In the mountainous interior of Jamaica live several groups of people known as Maroons. They are the descendants of African and Creole slaves who escaped from bondage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and fled to the mountain forests, where they were able to from their own societies.2 Despite repeated efforts, the British colonists were unable to destroy these rebel communities. The Maroons successfully adapted to their…
Facundo Gonzales, New Mexican Violinista
Bongo, Backra & Coolie: Jamaican Roots
Bongo, Backra & Coolie
How the ýolder headsý talk: A Jamaican Maroon spirit possession language and its relationship to the creoles of Suriname and Sierra Leone
Enacting Power
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection fr…
The Kromanti dance of the windward maroons of Jamaica
Introduction1 In the mountainous interior of Jamaica live several groups of people known as Maroons. They are the descendants of African and Creole slaves who escaped from bondage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and fled to the mountain forests, where they were able to from their own societies.2 Despite repeated efforts, the British colonists were unable to destroy these rebel communities. The Maroons successfully adapted to their…
Surviving Secularization: Masking the Spirit in the Jankunu (John Canoe) Festivals of the Caribbean
Jankunu (Jonkonnu, Junkanoo), an Afro-Caribbean Yuletide tradition centering on masked dance, is generally characterized as a secular festival. This article presents contemporary ethnographic evidence showing that certain older variants of the tradition remain closely connected with African-derived religious concepts and practices. On the basis of this new evidence, the author argues for a reexamination and reevaluation of the historical signific…
Two Sister Pikni”: A Historical Tradition of Dual Ethnogenesis in Eastern Jamaica
The explorer as hero: Le Fidèle Apatou' in the French wilderness
Reconstructs the life story and activities of the Aluku Maroon Captain Apatu in French Guiana. Author describes how Apatu aligned with and aided French explorer Jules Cerveaux in exploring the Amazon region in the late 1870s, and maintained contacts with other French colonial figures. Partly because his role and achievements in colonial expansion were valued by the French, Apatu became an important intermediary between the French and the Aluku Ma…
Aleke: New Music and New Identities in the Guianas
On the northeastern coast of South America in Suriname and French Guiana, live six Maroon peoples--the Saramaka, Ndyuka, Paramaka, Aluku, Matawai, and Kwinti. Descended from enslaved Africans who escaped Dutch plantations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, until recently they have remained relatively isolated in the interior rain forests
Divided loyalties: Local politics and the play of states among the Aluku
Aluku village of Kotika in Suriname serves as an example how political alignments sometimes influence the definition of ethnic identities and interethnic relations. The Alukus in French Guiana and their Surinamese Maroon neighbours the Ndjuka and Paramaka show evidence of increasingly growing apart, even though these tribes possess similar cultures. Political separation thus heightens cultural differences
Bongo, Backra & Coolie
Bongo, Backra & Coolie: Jamaican Roots
The Kromanti dance of the windward maroons of Jamaica
Introduction1 In the mountainous interior of Jamaica live several groups of people known as Maroons. They are the descendants of African and Creole slaves who escaped from bondage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and fled to the mountain forests, where they were able to from their own societies.2 Despite repeated efforts, the British colonists were unable to destroy these rebel communities. The Maroons successfully adapted to their…
Facundo Gonzales, New Mexican Violinista
Black thoughts from the Caribbean: I-Deology at Home and Abroad
In 1953 the anthropologist George Eaton Simpson carried out a study of religious cults in the severely depressed outskirts of the Jamaican capital of Kingston. There, in the midst of dire poverty, he happened upon a sociological goldmine. Alongside the Pocomanian and Revivalist traditionalists, with their otherworldly blends of Christian doctrine and African survivals, was blossoming a newer phenomenon which could not have failed to whet a social…
How the ýolder headsý talk: A Jamaican Maroon spirit possession language and its relationship to the creoles of Suriname and Sierra Leone
Two Sister Pikni”: A Historical Tradition of Dual Ethnogenesis in Eastern Jamaica
The treacherous feast: A Jamaican Maroon historical myth
On June 6, 1796, an entire community of black Jamaicans, numbering nearly 600, set sail reluctantly from Port Royal, en route to Halifax, where an uncertain future awaited them.The voyage was not of their own making.Victims of British deceit during the protracted conflict which has come to be known as the "Second Maroon War", these people had been thrust int0 the realization of their own worst fears.The Trelawny Maroons, as they were called, were…
The half still untold: Recent literature on Reggae and Rastafari
Divided loyalties: Local politics and the play of states among the Aluku
Aluku village of Kotika in Suriname serves as an example how political alignments sometimes influence the definition of ethnic identities and interethnic relations. The Alukus in French Guiana and their Surinamese Maroon neighbours the Ndjuka and Paramaka show evidence of increasingly growing apart, even though these tribes possess similar cultures. Political separation thus heightens cultural differences
The Boni Maroon Wars in Suriname. Wim Hoogbergen
Seeds of Change
Seeds of Change National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (October 1991 through May 1993
Tracking the Caribbean sound: Three Current Hits
First paragraph]Zouk: World Music in the West lndies. JOCELYNE GuiLBAULT (with GAGE AVERILL, ÉDOUARD BENOIT & GREGORY RABESS). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. xxv + 279 pp. and compact disk. (Cloth US$ 55.00, Paper US$ 27.75) Calypso Calaloo: Early Carnival Music in Trinidad. DONALD R. HlLL. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993. xvi + 344 pp. and compact disk. (Cloth US$ 49.95, Paper US$ 24.95) Calypso & Society in Pre-Indep…
Aleke: New Music and New Identities in the Guianas
On the northeastern coast of South America in Suriname and French Guiana, live six Maroon peoples--the Saramaka, Ndyuka, Paramaka, Aluku, Matawai, and Kwinti. Descended from enslaved Africans who escaped Dutch plantations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, until recently they have remained relatively isolated in the interior rain forests
The explorer as hero: Le Fidèle Apatou' in the French wilderness
Reconstructs the life story and activities of the Aluku Maroon Captain Apatu in French Guiana. Author describes how Apatu aligned with and aided French explorer Jules Cerveaux in exploring the Amazon region in the late 1870s, and maintained contacts with other French colonial figures. Partly because his role and achievements in colonial expansion were valued by the French, Apatu became an important intermediary between the French and the Aluku Ma…
True‐Born Maroons
True-Born Maroons
Jamesie, King of Scratch (DVD) by Andrea E. Leland
Surviving Secularization: Masking the Spirit in the Jankunu (John Canoe) Festivals of the Caribbean
Jankunu (Jonkonnu, Junkanoo), an Afro-Caribbean Yuletide tradition centering on masked dance, is generally characterized as a secular festival. This article presents contemporary ethnographic evidence showing that certain older variants of the tradition remain closely connected with African-derived religious concepts and practices. On the basis of this new evidence, the author argues for a reexamination and reevaluation of the historical signific…
Enacting Power
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection fr…
Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
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