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The Jumbies' Playing Ground: Old World Influences on Afro-Creole Masquerades in the Eastern Caribbean: Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World

Autor Robert Wyndham Nicholls John Nunley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 feb 2015

During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the world topsy-turvy. Modern carnivals, which evolved from earlier ritual celebrations featuring disguised performers, are important cultural andeconomic events throughout the Caribbean, a direct link to a multilayered history.

This work explores the evolutionary connections in function, garb, and behavior between Afro-Creole masquerades and precursors from West Africa, the British Isles, and Western Europe. Robert Wyndham Nicholls utilizes a concept of play derived from Africa to describe a range of lighthearted and ritualistic activities. Along with Old World seeds, he studies the evolution of Afro- Creole prototypes that emerged in the Eastern Caribbean bush masquerades, stilt dancers, animal disguises, she-males, female masquerades, and carnival clowns.

Masquerades enact social, political, and spiritual roles within recurring festivals, initiations, wakes, skimmingtons, and weddings. The author explores performance in terms of abstraction in costume-disguise and the aesthetics of music, songs, drum rhythms, dance, and licentiousness. He reveals masquerades as transformative agent, ancestral endorser, behavior manager, informal educator, and luck conferrer."

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ISBN-13: 9781496802477
ISBN-10: 1496802470
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 140 x 221 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University Press of Mississippi
Seria Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World