Historical Archaeology

, Volume 34, Issue 3, pp 56–72 | Cite as

The material and cognitive dimensions of creolization in nineteenth-century Jamaica

  • James A. Delle
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Abstract

Creolization is defined as a special form of ethnogenesis that in plantation contexts was a process through which social and material worlds were defined. Using colonial Jamaica as an example, ethnohistorical sources to suggest how creole identities were emically defined by and negotiated between populations of both European and African descent, and suggests how the process of creolization was manifested in the use of space, foodways, and general health of creole populations of both European and African descent.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • James A. Delle
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  1. 1.Department of AnthropologyFranklin & Marshall CollegeLancasterUSA

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