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  • Passages and Afterworlds

    Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean

    Edición de Maarit Forde, Yanique Hume ...
    Series series Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
    The contributors to Passages and Afterworlds explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies and the spirits of the dead, the contributors investigate the changes in cosmologies and rituals in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Obeah and Other Powers

    The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing

    Edición de Maarit Forde, Diana Paton ...
    In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions—such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería—have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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    The autobiography of the fastest man of all time, eight-time Olympic gold medalist, eleven-time World Champion, and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet.Whether you know Athletics or not, and even whether you know sport or not, chances are you know Usain Bolt. The fastest man on the planet, not just now but ever, Usain has won the hearts ... Leer más

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  • The Lunatic

    de Anthony C. Winkler ...
    This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . "By far the funniest book I've read in a decade" ( The Washington Post Book World).In Jamaica, Aloysius is tolerated by his neighbors, but forced to eke out a living by doing odd jobs and use the hospitable woodlands for shelter. Starved of human companionship, he has running conversations with trees and plants ... Leer más

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  • When a Heart Turns Rock Solid

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    de Timothy Black ...
    A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the ... Leer más

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  • True Paranormal Mystery From Haunted Islands

    de Damien Rollins ...
    Most people think of sun, sand, and endless parties when they hear the word 'Caribbean'. In some cases all of that's true, which is why the Caribbean islands remain one of the premier destinations for sun worshippers and party goers worldwide. Here's a not so hidden secret though: the history of the Caribbean is much darker than many people realize.The islands of the Caribbean became prized ... Leer más

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  • The Age of Garvey

    How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

    de Adam Ewing ...
    Series series America in the World
    A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an ... Leer más

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  • Afro-Caribbean Religions

    An Introduction to Their Historical, Cultural, and Sacred Traditions

    de Nathaniel Samuel Murrell ...
    Religion is one of the most important elements of Afro-Caribbean culture linking its people to their African past, from Haitian Vodou and Cuban Santeria—popular religions that have often been demonized in popular culture—to Rastafari in Jamaica and Orisha-Shango of Trinidad and Tobago. In Afro-Caribbean Religions, Nathaniel Samuel Murrell provides a comprehensive study that respectfully traces the ... Leer más

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  • Once Upon a Reef

    A Dominican Adventure

    de Chap Harper ...
    In September of 2007 Chris Zacharius and three other divers recovered  a single engine plane from the restricted dive waters of the Silver Banks between the Dominican Republic and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It was loaded with treasure that belonged to the dictator Rafael Trujillo. They would soon learn that a much larger treasure was hidden elsewhere in the Dominican Republic that could be ... Leer más

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  • Cuba in Revolution

    A History since the Fifties

    de Antoni Kapcia ...
    Series series Contemporary Worlds
    The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world’s attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. Antoni Kapcia provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959.Kapcia’s history takes the Cuban Revolution as its starting point, analysing the ... Leer más

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  • God Carlos

    de Anthony C. Winkler ...
    This tragicomic novel set in sixteenth-century Jamaica is a "gusty, boisterous, [and] entertaining . . . slice of historical fiction" (Alan Cheuse, NPR, All Things Considered).Winner of the 2014 Townsend Prize for FictionA fortune-seeking band of ragtag sailors travel aboard the Santa Inez, a Spanish vessel bound for the newly discovered West Indies. She is an unusual explorer for her day, ... Leer más

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  • Legendary Pirates: The Life and Legacy of Captain Henry Morgan

    de Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes historic illustrations depicting Morgan and important events in his life.*Includes excerpts from an account of Morgan's piracy written by his ship's surgeon.*Analyzes Morgan's legacy and current efforts to find some of his sunken pirate ships.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. The people who have lived outside the boundaries of normal societies ... Leer más

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