Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories PDF Author: Collected by Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465517057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Get Book Here

Book Description

Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories PDF Author: Collected by Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465517057
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Get Book Here

Book Description


Anansi's Journey

Anansi's Journey PDF Author: Emily Zobel Marshall
Publisher: University of West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766402617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Get Book Here

Book Description
The historic Hope lands located on the Liguanea Plain in the southeastern parish of St Andrew, Jamaica, and once the site of one of the island?s earliest sugar estates, has had a long history of human settlements dating back to approximately 600 CE, the era of the indigenous Tainos. It was not until 1655, however, with the English invasion and seizure of Jamaica from the Spanish, that the Hope landscape developed into a thriving rural agrarian settlement. Generous land grants were made to the invading officers and later to immigrants from Britain and North America and from other Caribbean islands. Major Richard Hope came in possession of over 2,600 acres in the Liguanea Plain. Major Hope, unlike many of his counterparts by the 1660s, managed to establish a small sugar plantation, which developed by the mid-1700s into one of the island?s largest, most productive and technologically advanced slave sugar estates. In the 1770s the estate became the property of the Duke of Chandos and his family until 1848, when the estate was dismantled. Over 600 acres were sold to the Kingston and Liguanea Water Works Company and the remaining 1,700 acres were leased to the owner of the adjoining Papine and Mona estates. Poor accounting and border surveillance enabled several persons to possess the land, which was later sanctioned by the Limitations of Actions Law. With the government?s acquisition of the entire property in 1909, the Hope estate underwent remarkable changes in the twentieth century. By 1960 the Hope landscape was radically transformed from a sugar estate worked by hundreds of enslaved black people to a premiere urban centre of commercial, residential and educational land use.

Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories PDF Author: Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher: Corinthian Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Get Book Here

Book Description


Anansi

Anansi PDF Author: Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher: Vamzzz Publishing
ISBN: 9789492355171
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494

Get Book Here

Book Description
Anansi is both a god, spirit and African folktale character. He often takes the shape of a spider and is considered to be the spirit of all knowledge of stories. He is also one of the most important characters of West African and Caribbean folklore.

Jamaica Anansi Stories

Jamaica Anansi Stories PDF Author: Martha Warren Beckwith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781720975311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Get Book Here

Book Description
Jamaica Anansi Stories includes folklore (including animal stories, modern stories and old stories), transcriptions of folk music, and a large collection of riddles, all cross-referenced with folklore studies from other cultures. The trickster Anansi, originally a West African spider-god, lives on in these tales. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion; he is able to overturn the social order; he can marry the Kings' daughter, create wealth out of thin air; baffle the Devil and cheat Death. Even if Anansi loses in one story, you know that he will overcome in the next.

Annancy Stories

Annancy Stories PDF Author: Pamela Colman Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Get Book Here

Book Description


Anansi Goes Fishing

Anansi Goes Fishing PDF Author: Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430129778
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Get Book Here

Book Description
Anansi the Spider's plan to trick his friend Turtle into doing all the work while he teaches Anansi to catch fish somehow gets turned around. While Anansi doesn't learn his lesson, he does learn the invaluable skill of weaving.

Jamaican Folk Tales and Oral Histories

Jamaican Folk Tales and Oral Histories PDF Author: Laura Tanna
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, Jamaican
Languages : en
Pages : 166

Get Book Here

Book Description


JAMAICA ANANSI STORIES

JAMAICA ANANSI STORIES PDF Author: MARTHA WARREN. BECKWITH
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033011102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Get Book Here

Book Description


Children and Mother Nature

Children and Mother Nature PDF Author: Rouhollah Aghasaleh
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004399828
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 108

Get Book Here

Book Description
Children and Mother Nature is a multilingual volume that represents indigenous knowledges from various ethnic, linguistic, geographical, and national groups of educators and students through storytelling.