Creolization in the Americas

by Buisseret, David; Usner, Daniel H., Jr.; Galvin, Mary L.; Rath, Richard Cullen; Dillard, Joey Lee; Buisseret, David

• ISBN13: 9781585441013
• ISBN10: 1585441015
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	3	(16)
David Buisseret
The Process of Creolization in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica	19	(16)
David Buisseret
``The Facility Offered by the Country'': The Creolization of Agriculture in the Lower Mississippi Valley	35	(28)
Daniel H. Usner, Jr.
Decoctions for Carolinians: The Creation of a Creole Medicine Chest in Colonial South Carolina	63	(36)
Mary L. Galvin
Drums and Power: Ways of Creolizing Music in Coastal South Carolina and Georgia, 1730--90	99	(32)
Richard Cullen Rath
The Evidence for Pidgin/Creolization in Early American English	131
J. L. Dillard