Reflections on Caribbean peasantries

Consisting of perhaps fifty separate countries and territories, most of them insular but not all; the oldest colonial sphere in the European world outside Europe, conquered, settled and developed by a dozen different powers the Caribbean region discourages ambitious attempts at comparison. Not surprisingly the application of the concept of the peasantry to the Caribbean region has so far been rather limited in character. The peasantry is not an old-fashioned subject of study for anthropologists; in the Caribbean region, it is a relatively new concern. Before World War II, and even for a few years afterward, American anthropological interest there was confined mainly to folklore and to the AfroAmerican tradition, exemplified by the work of such scholars as Melville and Frances Herskovits (e.g. 1936), Martha Beckwith (e.g. 1924), and Manuel Andrade (e.g. 1930). Beckwith also produced both an interesting monograph on Jamaican village life, which was the first of its kind (1929), and a short and important study of ethnobotany in that country (1928). But her pioneering work was for long not imitated. On the British side there was little of interest to Caribbean

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• The plural society in the British West Indies

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• The Free Village System In Jamaica

  Hugh Paget•Caribbean Quarterly•1950

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• Kinship and Community in Carriacou

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• Indian Food Production in the Caribbean

  Open Access•Carl O Sauer•Geographical Review•1981

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• My Mother Who Fathered Me

  Judith Blake, Judith A Blake et al.•Population Studies•1959

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• Jamaica

  Richard Pares, Lord Olivier•The Economic History Review•1938

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  Sidney W Mintz•Hispanic American Historical Review•1953

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• Dependency, mediation, and class formation in rural Guyana

  Open Access•Marilyn Silverman•American Ethnologist•1979

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