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Prior to the Quakers large-scale migration to Pennsylvania, Barbados had more Quakers than any other English colony. But on this island of sugar plantations, Quakers confronted material temptations and had to temper founder George Fox s admonitions regarding slavery with the demoralizing realities of daily life in a slave-based economy one where even most Quakers owned slaves. Gragg shows how the community dealt with these contradictions as it struggled to change the culture of the richest of England s seventeenth-century colonies. ... Read more

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Barbados has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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Chapters: Demographics of Barbados, Culture of Barbados, Royal Barbados Police Force, Redlegs, Immigration to Barbados, White Barbadian, Indians in Barbados, Holder's Festival, National Library Service of Barbados, Barbados Red Cross Society. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The culture of Barbados is a blend of West African and British cultures present in Barbados. The Bajan, or Barbadian dialect is an iconic part of the culture. But English is still the official language, reflecting centuries of British rule. The island's British influence stretches back to 1625, when Captain John Powell claimed it in the name of King James I. The first colonists arrived two years later, founding a settlement of 80 civilians and 10 slaves. Early on, Barbados adopted the British style of government, creating a Parliamentary democracy in 1639. During the colonial period, all members of the Legislative Assembly were white. After slavery was abolished in 1838, non-whites quickly began to play a role in the island's government, with the first minority member elected in 1843. Although Barbados gained full independence from Britain in 1966, it has retained its governmental style and remains a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. In addition to government, the British passed down their love of cricket. The most popular sport in Barbados, its cricket team has won numerous regional matches. Many players on the team go on to success on the West Indies team to compete in international games. In fact, one of the most highly regarded cricket players of all time, Sir Garfield Sobers, is a Barbados native. The country's architecture pays further testament to Britain, with many historic buildings still standing. In addition to traditional wood and stone, coral was also used...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5443055 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The music of Barbados includes distinctive national stylesof folk and popular music, including elements of Westernclassical and religious music. The culture of Barbados is asyncretic mix of African and British elements, and theisland's music reflects this mix through song types andstyles, instrumentation, dances, and aesthetic principles.Barbadian folk traditions include the Landship movement,which is a satirical, informal organization based on theBritish navy, tea meetings, tuk bands and numeroustraditional songs and dances. In modern Barbados, popularstyles include calypso, spouge and other styles, most ofthem imported from Trinidad and Tobago, the United Statesor elsewhere. Barbados is, along with Trinidad, Cuba,Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, one of the few centersfor Caribbean jazz. ... Read more

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One of the first things any visitor to Barbados notices is Barbadian youths wearing baseball caps and T-shirts sporting the logos of North American teams; and these days, one is more likely to find an American sitcom on television than a Caribbean program. The Parish behind God's Back describes the social fabric and everyday life of one rural parish on the island, St. Lucy, including its many links to the outside world. It is a contemporary ethnography of the local that takes into account the enormous influence of global factors such as tourism, television, foreign travel, and return migrants.
Written with students in mind, the book contains several unique features. Each chapter blends descriptions of Barbadian culture with comparisons to North America; throughout, the authors include tales of not only their own fieldwork experiences but those of their undergraduate students; and personal narratives are emphasized to engage interest in individuals.
This highly readable and thought-provoking account should appeal to general readers with an interest in the Caribbean as well as to students of anthropology.
George Gmelch is Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Union College. Sharon Bohn Gmelch is Professor of Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies, Union College.
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An outstanding portrait of a rural community
The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive ethnographic account of one rural community in the small island nation of Barbados. The intended audience is undergraduate students studying anthropology, therefore it is primarily descriptive, atheoretical, and written in a simple, straight-forward manner. The author begins with a historical overview, one theme being change over time. The second chapter, for example, discusses the demise of the sugar industry, the raison d'etre of the colony, and its recent replacement by tourism. The book very effectively personalizes life in the community by including portraits of individuals, particularly in chapter four. The next chapter is quite appropriately devoted to gender and the life cycle, the relationship between men and women being a key interest of scholars in the Caribbean in recent years. The remainder of the book (almost half) is devoted to a discussion of changes in the community, including the introduction of piped water and its effects, indoor plumbing, kerosene and later propane stoves, ovens, electricity, television, telephones,tourism, and emigration. The book is also effective in placing Barbados within the content of 'the world system'. I found it to be a very easy, pleasant and informative read, suitable for most any reader with an interest in anthropology, social change, globalization, ethnography, or, of course, Barbados and the English-speaking Caribbean. I assigned it for a class on the Caribbean and would use it again, although some students found it dull.

Snoozefest!
This book is terribly boring, and many of the characters have similar names, making it hard to keep track of people. I get that it's not actually a story, and is based on real life events and blahblahblah, but that doesn't make it any more interesting.

Well written, readable ethnographic account of Barbados
Excellent ethnography of the the changes that have been occurring in Barbados since the arrival of Europeans and Africans.The Gmelches take students to the island for a semester every other year so they can learnhow to do ethnographic research in cultural anthropology.They are placedin Bajian homes and live there for ten weeks.The book is well informed bythe students' perspectives. They help us all see what this island is likeand what the life of the islanders has become in the light of tourismdevelopment on the island.The Gmelches write well and the book is easy toread and very informative. I have made the book a required text in one ofmy university, introductory anthropology courses.

An excellent depiction of life in rural Barbados.
The Gmelch's have, for many years, taken mostly white, middle-class, students from the USA to spend a college term living in rural St. Lucy Parish, Barbados. "The Parish Behind God's Back" presents a highly readable, appreciative, ethnographic account of contemporary village life gleaned from the Gmelch's own field work and that of their students. This book makes a very strong case for the value of study abroad schemes as it lets readers understand much about the process by which students gain insights into themselves and their own cultures while learning to live among strangers.

This book is an enjoyable read and highly informative. I have adopted it as a mandatory reading for my university course "Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Countries and Their Cultures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1011 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Covers the broad range of popular religious culture of the United States at the close of the twentieth century. Beliefs, practices, symbols, traditions, movements, organizations, and leaders from the many traditions in the pluralistic American community are represented. Also includes cults and phenomena that drew followers, such as Heaven's Gale and UFOs. ... Read more

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David Lambert explores the political and cultural articulation of white creole identity in the British Caribbean colony of Barbados during the age of abolitionism (c. 1780-1833), the period in which the British antislavery movement emerged, first to attack the slave trade and then the institution of chattel slavery itself. Supporters of slavery in Barbados and beyond responded with their own campaigning, resulting in a series of debates and moments of controversy, both localised and transatlantic in significance. They exposed tensions between Britain and its West Indian colonies, and raised questions about whether white slaveholders could be classed as fully 'British' and if slavery was compatible with 'English' conceptions of liberty and morality. David Lambert considers what it meant to be a white colonial subject in a place viewed as a vital and loyal part of the empire but subject to increasing metropolitan attack because of the existence of slavery. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1045 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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From England - To Barbados - To Carolina, 1670-1700: The Founding of Charles Town and Recovering The Material Culture of First Generation Carolinians is a look at the social history of the first colonists at Charles Town, with an overall history of colonization efforts by Europeans in the Atlantic Region. The book centers around the social and material culture of the English-Barbadians utilizing 50 surviving probate inventories and a sampling of wills.The first 30 years 1670-1700 provide a unique snapshot of the English and other European peoples that colonized what would later be Charleston, South Carolina. A case is made that it was purely environment and topographic reasons that led to massive slave imports into the colony around 1700 - not in 1670 as has been widely claimed by historians in the past. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Voice of Barbados was introduced in 1981 as Barbados's second radio station. Originally located at 790 AM, the station was meant to complement the Redifussion service. In the late 1990s Voice of Barbados (VOB) changed to the FM dial, with 790 AM changing format from general to gospel. It is now owned by Starcom NetworBarbados (pronounced /bɑrˈbeɪdoʊz, bɑrˈbeɪdɒs/), situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is a West Indian continental island-nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. ... Read more

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caribbean music Breaking new ground
All I really really knew of the music of the english speaking caribbean was Bob Marley and reggae, since I knew very little of the music scene in the small caribbean island of Barbados I read this book with must interest,It is clear that the author was trying to please a number of individuals.It pays attention to academic discussion, it also tries to explain basicrealities of Caribbean culture and experience to the uninitiated likemyself. I found the exercise of reading this book very enriching. It isbooks live this one which fill gaps of knowledge in the constructon ofCaribbean culture. ... Read more