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<p><P>This compelling look at the wellsprings of cultural vitality during one of the most dehumanizing experiences in history provides a fresh perspective on the African-American past.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>This long essay, written in 1972 by two anthropologists in an attempt to prevent ideology from diverting the course of African American studies, posits that the Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the New World cannot ``be said to have shared a culture ,'' having been ``drawn from different parts of the . . . continent, from numerous ethnic and linguistic groups, and from different societies in any region.'' On the contrary, the authors conclude that the roots of African American culture lie in the cooperative efforts of the enslaved to create a new society here. Drawing heavily on examples from the Caribbean experience, Mintz and Price believe that so-called African retentions in the cultural realm must be examined in light of social structures and relationships established in the Americas. They examine, for instance, the development of unilineal vs. aggregate family groups in different contexts and the apparent reversion to African gender roles in the economi

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Author

Sidney W Mintz; Richard Price; Universidade Candido Mendes. Centro de Estudos Afro-Brasileiros

Publisher

Beacon Press

Published

1992

Language

PT

ISBN

9780807009161

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science

Rating

3.58 / 5 (44 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14