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Howson, Jean.

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Colonial goods and the plantation village: Consumption and the internal economy in Monserrat from slavery to freedom.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Colonial goods and the plantation village: Consumption and the internal economy in Monserrat from slavery to freedom./
Author:	Howson, Jean.
Description:	361 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: A, page: 4016.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-10A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9603146

Colonial goods and the plantation village: Consumption and the internal economy in Monserrat from slavery to freedom.
Howson, Jean.

Colonial goods and the plantation village: Consumption and the internal economy in Monserrat from slavery to freedom. - 361 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-10, Section: A, page: 4016.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1995.

Consumption and the material culture of rural laborers in the nineteenth-century British West Indies became issues in contemporary colonial discourse, which linked desire for "comforts of life" to development of a reliable labor force, essential to post-emancipation survival the plantation economies. Reinterpretation of enslaved and freed laborers' material culture, using evidence from both archaeology and the archives about the commodities involved, leads to a critique of the colonial discourse.Subjects--Topical Terms:

622985
Anthropology, Archaeology.

Colonial goods and the plantation village: Consumption and the internal economy in Monserrat from slavery to freedom.
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520 $a Consumption and the material culture of rural laborers in the nineteenth-century British West Indies became issues in contemporary colonial discourse, which linked desire for "comforts of life" to development of a reliable labor force, essential to post-emancipation survival the plantation economies. Reinterpretation of enslaved and freed laborers' material culture, using evidence from both archaeology and the archives about the commodities involved, leads to a critique of the colonial discourse.
520 $a The case study is Montserrat. An analysis of the legal history of markets during slavery in this colony highlights participation of rural laborers in the internal economy. This participation is the key to understanding the meanings of commodities in plantation village households, for the acquisition of goods through independent economic endeavors transformed their meanings. Two plantations, both in operation from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, are examined through archaeological investigations of the plantation villages, where first enslaved and later freed laborers lived.
520 $a A hierarchy of merchants and small-scale traders were responsible for the local distribution of metropolitan commodities. The swift incorporation of these goods into plantation village households was in part due to the importance of trading in African West Indian culture. Two commodities, cloth and ceramics, are traced through systems of distribution to show how laborers acquired them. Archaeological evidence of ceramic goods acquired by village residents, analyzed in terms of stylistic, functional and symbolic categories, supports the idea that African West Indian material culture developed through the transformation of metropolitan commodities in systems of meaning within a separate community with its own economic base. The issue of consumption in Montserrat in the period of the Apprenticeship and immediately after emancipation is explored through colonial documents. Outsiders failed to understand laboring peoples' economic aspirations, interpreting goods as indices of acculturation rather than as clues to the involvement of individuals and families in an independent economy, just as they interpreted attachment to houses and yards as commitment to the estates rather than to the village community.
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