[PDF] The Social System Of A Rural Yugoslav American Community Oysterville eBook

Author : David Buisseret
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585441013

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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

Author : Francesco Cordasco
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,23 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810814059

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Author : Joseph Stipanovich
Publisher : R&e Research Associates
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN :

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Both text and study outline, accompanied by a bibliography, discuss the themes of identity and nationalism in the Slavic American community.

Author : Francine Friedman
Publisher : Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN :

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This reference work catalogues all English-language books and journal articles about the former Yugoslavia. It contains over 9000 entries, arranged by subject and is fully indexed. The bibliographic citations are arranged under broad subject headings (geography, history and so on). The major subject headings are further broken dowen into easy-to-follow headings and sub-headings.

Author : Adam Fairclough
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 27,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820331140

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From the foundation of the New Orleans branch of the NAACP in 1915 to the beginning of Edwin Edwards' first term as governor in 1972, this is a wide-ranging study of the civil rights struggle in Louisiana. This edition contains a new preface which brings the narrative up-to-date, including coverage of Hurricane Katrina.