Cultural power, resistance and pluralism : colonial Guyana 1838-1900 / Brian L. Moore. PRINT

By:

Brian L. Moore, 1948-

Series: McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 22Publication details: Kingston, Jamaica, WI (1A Aqueduct Flats, Kgn. 7) : The Press University of the West Indies ; Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.Description: xiii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9766400067
9789766400064
077351354X
9780773513549

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

988.1 Ja Moo 20

Contents:

Introduction -- Guyanese society after emancipation -- Elite victorian culture: material culture, social attitudes and values -- Elite victorian culture: leisure -- Afro-Creole folk culture: material and temporal -- Afro-Creole folk culture: spiritual -- Indian Bhojpuri culture: material and temporal -- Indian Bhojpuri culture: spiritual -- Portuguese Latin culture -- Chinese Hua-Qiao culture -- Conclusion: cultural power, resistance and pluralism.

Summary: "Seeks to determine manner in which colonial elite used culture and consensus of values to maintain their hegemony, and examines responses of the subordinate groups to these initiatives and nature of the resulting cultural fabric. His conclusion - that 19th-century Guyanese society consisted of a number of 'discrete cultural sections which shared very little with one another other than a common commitment to making money in the plantation society' - suggests the presence of acquisitive materialism that now inhibits growth of consensus-building mechanisms at the national level"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index.

"Seeks to determine manner in which colonial elite used culture and consensus of values to maintain their hegemony, and examines responses of the subordinate groups to these initiatives and nature of the resulting cultural fabric. His conclusion - that 19th-century Guyanese society consisted of a number of 'discrete cultural sections which shared very little with one another other than a common commitment to making money in the plantation society' - suggests the presence of acquisitive materialism that now inhibits growth of consensus-building mechanisms at the national level"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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