...This chapter uses the intellectual evolution of Jamaican scholar and activist George Beckford to examine broader transformations in Caribbean radical thought sparked by the rise of Black Power. It argues that Beckford, a key figure in the New World Group, which was founded in 1962 and flourished...

...This chapter traces and substantiates Toni Morrison's use of African and African New World religions in Beloved through essays written by Morrison, an interview between Morrison scholars that demonstrates Morrison's research into the ethnographic studies of Robert Farris Thompson...

... during the late romantic age, the twentieth century's avant-garde years, and the beginning of the twenty-first century. In this chapter, it is first important to identify how the genre and the New World's variations are manifested and how epic poetry is defined. America as all encompassing whole Elias...

... Muslimeen Islamic iconography in Trinidad Mohammed Patricia New World Piety Sexuality Architecture Clothing Hosay festival Discursive traditions New World Western imaginaries modernity vernacular religion comparative ethnography gender relations democracy More than a quarter of a century ago...

... the various pressures that have impinged on relations between Havana and Moscow since the late 1950s, with particular attention on the role Washington played in this relationship--one that transcended both the end of the cold war and the appearance of a new world order. Castro Fidel Cold war Cuba Cuban...

...Without specific reference to Haiti, two theories of regional ideology were widely held and circulated throughout the Caribbean: those of the Martinican Frantz Fanon on one hand ans those of the New World Group on the other. Both dealt with Marxist ideologies and race. Fanon, in his Algerian War...

...This chapter gives the historical background with the Netherlands' war with Spain, the Dutch conquest of the New World (Brazil in particular), and the creation and actions of the Dutch West India Company. The chapter goes into great detail about Brazil and its inhabitants—from their weapons...

...These dramatic tales of seafaring and shipwrecks have been translated into English for the first time from the author's sixteenth-century reports on the perils and disasters experienced by travelers to and from the New World. These narratives contain important information about colonial navigation...

...This chapter examines paired polarities (West/East, Old World/New World) and common themes (modernity, progress, democracy) that both connect and divide Muslim and non-Muslim territories and peoples. It considers the implications these oppositions and commonalities have for understanding Islam...

...Cuba was among the first areas in the New World where contact occurred between indigenous Amerindian populations and Europeans. As the cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta encompasses indigenous use of the site through the pre-Columbian and post-contact period, it affords an opportunity to examine...

... tests this hypothesis by evaluating the distribution of disease and stress markers in the human remains buried below Campeche's main square. The chapter compares this study's findings with the results from other New World colonial sites and discusses them from biocultural, economic, and social...

...For the black female subject in the New World, the separation between the sexual and the spiritual had to be maintained within the framework of black women's historical subjugation, not just physically, but more significantly, sexually. Therefore, the central challenges for black women writers have...

... marvels. They discuss the long-term political, social, and military impacts these projects had on their respective civilizations and illuminate the significance of monumentality among early complex societies in the Americas. Early New World Monumentality is ultimately a study of labor...

... disciplinary and temporal divides, it evaluates those efforts in the context of other moves within American Studies and the New Southern Studies to place the nation and the region in Global and Hemispheric (or New World) contexts. Noting the tremendous technical challenges posed by situating the American South...

... Mounds La activities at Conchas phase abandonment of sites from La Blanca polity architecture from Lurín Valley agriculture in Society for American Antiquity Hole Frank monumental architecture monumentality early architecture New World archaeology Monumental construction projects have always...

..., but there are many similarities, an internal consistency in patterns, and commonalities with other New World architectural traditions. In this chapter we offer a review of the salient features of monumental architecture and social complexity in the Intermediate Area. We will begin by briefly reviewing the natural...

... of the History in which Oviedo recounts his introduction to the New World when he arrived in 1514 at the Darién region of Panama in the expedition led by the infamous Pedro Arias de Avila. The book tackles the last book of his history—book fifty, Infortunios e naufragios acaescidos en las mares...

... approaches to spreading the faith were applied in the New World when the Spanish established missions in La Florida 1000 years later. However, interpretations are in flux. Primary documents have been reinterpreted to indicate better and worse situations for the Apalachee, Guale, and Timucua; currently...

...John White and a few others brought to Europe the first glimpses of the animals, plants, and people of the New World at the time of initial contact between the two very different worlds. However, the first images of the New World were created within a historical, political, social, and economic...

...Before the authors’ research, Chocolá was no more than an intriguing legend. Chocolá’s apparent political links to the greatest Preclassic southern Maya area polity, Kaminaljuyu, would make any discovery about Chocolá conceivably vital to a better understanding of Maya origins and New World...