"An excellent example of applying petrographic and chemical
analysis to coarse earthenwares of the African Diaspora in order to
examine the social networks created by enslaved laborers on Jamaica
within the larger colonial and capitalist systems. . . . A
wonderful contribution to Caribbean historical archaeology.
"--"H-Net Reviews" "Uses pottery fragments and other data to
examine an informal, underground economy that existed among slaves,
island-wide."--"Chronicle Review" "This is a convincing study, and
the findings serve as a strong basis for the consideration of the
role of the Sunday markets in African Jamaican life of the
eighteenth century. . . . Hauser is a master in his field, and he
writes extremely well."--"Journal of Caribbean Archaeology"
"Eloquently weaves together historical, ethnographic, and
archaeological evidence to illustrate the complexities of the
internal markets, which suggest that the enslaved may have been
able to use the social and economic networks they created in order
to gain some relief or protection from the power of the colonial
regime."--"Winterthur Portfolio" "In the best historical
archaeology tradition, this is a corrective history that refutes
Caribbean stereotypes and maps the histories of ignored peoples by
examining the most seemingly mundane everyday material
culture."--Paul Mullins, Indiana University-Purdue University Mark
W. Hauser is assistant professor of anthropology at Northwestern
University.
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