Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)

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As a young anthropologist, Sidney Mintz undertook fieldwork in Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. Fifty years later, the eminent scholar of the Caribbean returns to those experiences to meditate at the societies and at the island individuals who befriended him. These reflections light up continuities and differences between these cultures, but much more they exemplify the power of people to reveal their very own history.

Mintz seeks to conjoin his knowledge of the history of Jamaica, Haiti, and Puerto Rico―a dynamic past born of a confluence of peoples of a sort that has happened only some times in human history―with the ways that he heard people speak about themselves and their lives. Mintz argues that in Jamaica and Haiti, creolization represented an enormous creative act by enslaved peoples: that creolization was once not a passive mixing of cultures, but an effort to create new hybrid institutions and cultural meanings to replace those that had been demolished by enslavement. Globalization isn’t the new phenomenon we take it to be.

This book is both a summation of Mintz’s groundbreaking work within the region and a reminder of how anthropology allows people to explore the deep truths that history may leave unexamined.

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