ISBN:
077351354X
,
9766400067
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 376 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Series Statement:
MacGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history 22
Series Statement:
MacGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history
DDC:
305.5/09881
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Sozialgeschichte 1838-1900
;
Classes sociales - Guyana - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Culturele identiteit
;
Guyana - Moeurs et coutumes - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Koloniaal bestuur
;
Alltag, Brauchtum
;
Geschichte
;
Social classes History 19th century
;
Guyana - Conditions sociales
;
Guyana - Relations raciales - Histoire - 19e siecle
;
Guyana Race relations 19th century
;
History
;
Guyana Social conditions
;
Guyana Social life and customs 19th century
;
History
;
Guyana
;
Guyana
;
Sozialgeschichte 1838-1900
Abstract:
"Cultural Power, Resistance, and Pluralism is a pioneering study of imperialism and the struggle for cultural survival in nineteenth-century Guyana. Drawing on a wide range of comparative historical, sociological, and anthropological theory and data, Brian Moore describes various institutions, customs, and beliefs in the Afro-Creole, Indian Bhojpuri, Portuguese Latin, Chinese Hua-Qiao, and Victorian elite subcultures that make up Guyanese society. He looks at the way British colonizers used their power to transform and submerge the cultures of other ethnic groups and establish their own cultural model as dominant and examines the efforts of the diverse subordinate groups to resist such cultural imperialism and retain aspects of their own traditional cultures. Moore argues that it is the intricate interplay of these conflicting and competing forces which determined the extent of socio-cultural integration or pluralism that the society as a whole achieved."--BOOK JACKET.
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