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Nanny´s Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons´ African Experience
Werner Zips
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Description for Nanny´s Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons´ African Experience
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages, colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 500. The Jamaican Maroon's African Experience. 344 pages, colour photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 17. Weight: 504.
In 1975, Nanny was declared the first and, is to date, the only female National Hero in Jamaica. Though revered as a leader of the Maroons – that group of runaway slaves who fought the British during the 18th century and established free communities in the mountainous interior of Jamaica, maintaining their freedom and independence – much of Nanny’s story and that of the Maroons has been from oral tradition which paints a different picture from the Eurocentric historiography of colonial sources. Using an ethnohistorical approach that combines political and legal anthropology with an African interpretive framework, Anthropologist Werner Zips ... Read more
In 1975, Nanny was declared the first and, is to date, the only female National Hero in Jamaica. Though revered as a leader of the Maroons – that group of runaway slaves who fought the British during the 18th century and established free communities in the mountainous interior of Jamaica, maintaining their freedom and independence – much of Nanny’s story and that of the Maroons has been from oral tradition which paints a different picture from the Eurocentric historiography of colonial sources. Using an ethnohistorical approach that combines political and legal anthropology with an African interpretive framework, Anthropologist Werner Zips ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Kingston, Jamaica
ISBN
9789766375171
SKU
V9789766375171
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