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An Archaeology of Social Space. Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains.
James A. Delle
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Hardback. Examines the cognitive and material records of the spatial design and use - including maps, architectural drawings, landscapes, and historical treatises - of three coffee plantations in the Yallahs drainage of eastern Jamaica. Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HDDK; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area of Jamaica, it is actually about the whole Caribbean. Just as it is about all archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth century capitalism. The first issue raised appears to be ... Read more
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area of Jamaica, it is actually about the whole Caribbean. Just as it is about all archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth century capitalism. The first issue raised appears to be ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers Group Netherlands
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306458507
SKU
V9780306458507
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Reviews for An Archaeology of Social Space. Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains.
`Valuable...This theoretically sophisticated work belongs in serious anthropology, geography, plantation, and Caribbean studies collections. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Choice (November 1998) `This volume, a reworking of Delle's doctoral dissertation, is published in the Contribution to Global Archaeology Series. In Chapter 1, Delle lays out a Marxist approach. Following James ... Read more