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Creolization in the Americas (Hardcover)
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Creolization in the Americas (Hardcover)
Series: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
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Creolization, the process of cultural interchange--in this case,
between peoples of the continents bordering the Atlantic Ocean--is
an important aspect of the American experience. Language,
literature, food, dress, and social relations are all affected by
the interplay of cultures. Only recently, though, have scholars
fully begun to understand creolization as a mutual exchange rather
than the acculturation of colonized peoples to a dominant culture.
Focusing on diverse settings and different aspects of culture, five
scholars here examine the process of creolization: its origins,
historical and modern meanings of the term, and the various
manifestations of the complex, continuing process of cultural
exchange and adaptation that began when Africans, American Indians,
and Europeans came into contact with each other. While the authors
vary in their approaches and, in some respects, their conclusions,
they essentially agree that the notion of cultural
syncretism--whether described as acculturation or creolization--is
a conceptual tool of crucial importance for analyzing the
interchange that occurred between peoples of Europe and the
Americas. Contributors to this ground-breaking volume and their
respective chapters are David Buisseret, "The Process of
Creolization in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica"; Daniel H. Usner, Jr.,
"`The Facility Offered by the Country': The Creolization of
Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley"; Mary L. Galvin,
"Decoctions for Carolinians: The Creation of a Creole Medicine
Chest in Colonial South Carolina"; Richard Cullen Rath, "Drums and
Power: Ways of Creolizing Music in Coastal South Carolina and
Georgia, 1730-1790"; and J. L. Dillard, "The Evidence for Pidgin
Creolization in Early American English." Buisseret also contributes
an introduction that places the other articles within the context
of recent scholarship on creolization
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