Books published by University of the West Indies Press

Appendix: The Baugh potters: pages 169-171.

Thehistorical study of food and the anthropology of food are recent and growingfields of scholarly inquiry. An understanding of these aspects of life canreveal much about a culture's crop production, economy, preparation methods, festivals, foodways, history, and environmental care and degradation. Thisbeautifully illustrated book by one of the Caribbean's pre-eminent historians, B.W. Higman, sheds new light on food and cultural practices in Jamaica from thetime of the earliest Taino inhabitants through the introduction of differentfoodways by enslaved peoples, to creole adaptations to the fast-food phenomenaof the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The author examines the shift inJamaican food practices over time, from the Tainos' use of bitter cassava to theMaroons' introduction of jerk pork, and the population's love affair with thefruits of the island such as pawpaw, guava, star apple, and avocado pear. Inthis accessible study, Higman traces how endemic animals, delicacies such asthe turtle, ringtail pigeon, black land crab and mountain mullet, barelyretained their popular status into the early twentieth century and are nowalmost completely forgotten, their populations dramatically depleted, oftenendangered. Thetwo main sections of the book deal separately with plants and animals. Plantsare grouped together according to the parts of them used as food: roots, stalksand leaves, fruits and seeds. Generally, all aspects of a particular plant havebeen discussed together and the plant as a whole has been located in itsdominant use. Animals are treated in the same way, putting all of their uses ina single place but grouped into biological families.

As the CaribbeanCommunity (CARICOM) approaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, the contributors to Caribbean Integration: Uncertaintyin Time of Global Fragmentation critically reflect on the evolutionof regional movement, analysing the challenges of maintaining relevance in apost-Brexit era of regional integration, while also highlighting opportunitiesfor its reinvigoration. This collection offers diverse perspectives from scholars within the region and beyond on the political, social, economic, cultural and environmental dimensions of regional integration. The volume is unique in its inclusion ofcritical analysis of CARICOM's performance on addressing prominent global development issues, which have rarely been featured in writings on Caribbean integration. The contributors consider the role and influence of youth, language, reparatory justice, election reform, gender-based violence, migration, trade and climate change on the deepening and longevity of CARICOM institutions. Their analyses signal the new prospects for emerging from acrisis of regionalism and moving towards sustainability. Contributors: April Karen Baptiste, Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Jessica Byron, Roland Craigwell, Halimah A.F. DeShong, Hubert Devonish, Natalie Dietrich Jones, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts, Ronald M. Gordon, Julia Jhinkoo-Ramdass, Irwin La Rocque, Patsy Lewis, Jay R. Mandle, Alain Maurin, Tamara Onnis, Adrian D. Saunders, Verene A. Shepherd, John J. VanSickle

Spanning three generations of teacher-writers, Caribbean Writers on Teaching Literature speaks to the emergence of a distinct body of teaching styles, approaches, methods and philosophy for teaching literature. Each generation enriched by the others has extended the field of literature teaching.

Presents the results of five years' research examining the relationship between men and tertiary education. The study focuses on the lived experiences and perceptions of three sets of young men: those who did not qualify to enter university; those who qualified but bypassed tertiary education; and those who qualified but have delayed entry.

Discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences.

This book is meant to guide, comfort and support journalists. While they may chafe against legal restrictions, they should know that there is a lot they can do and say within the law. With a better understanding of their legal rights, journalists can go about their business with greater confidence, knowing when to yield and when to stand firm.

Presents the final instalment of research and analysis by one of the Caribbean's foremost historians. In this volume, Eric Williams reflects on the institution of slavery from the ancient period in Europe down to New World African Slavery. The book also includes other forms of bondage which followed slavery.

Aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic. Beyond Homophobia presents a range of perspectives on and techniques with which to interrogate notions of identity, sexualities, victimhood, agency, activism, fluidity, visibility, class, homophobia, coming out, belonging and spirituality.

Presents a collection of critical perspectives on questions of how sexual orientation and gender in the Caribbean are conceived, studied, discoursed and experienced. This collection seeks to provide a fresh set of lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the Caribbean who fall outside traditional binary categories.

Una Marson's work embodied anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, class politics and pan-Africanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her poetry and drama symbolically ushered in a new era in Jamaica's literary landscape. She did not frame her work around a single cause but was mindful of the multiple intersections of oppression.

Provides medical students and allied health professionals and practitioners with a framework for understanding and applying communication skills in the context of medical education and health education in health settings. This volume provides an integration of knowledge, attitude and behavioural learning outcomes, and of principles with practices.

Based on the results of a long-term, field-based research project that began in 2006, The Greening of Saint Lucia applies a novel research methodology for human-environment research to study the rural landscape of Saint Lucia alongside findings derived from natural and social science sources.

Presents the author's experiences within the field of arbitration in Jamaica, and is annotated with practical solutions not often found in textbooks on the subject alongside answers to frequently asked questions.

Former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson's account of his time as an active and successful participant in the political and social development of Jamaica and the Caribbean, from the mid-1950s well into the early 2000s.

A lyrical yet unflinching examination of the ruinous intimacies sustained by and sustaining plantation slavery. Set around Jamaica's Christmas Rebellion and framed around three characters who are free themselves, but hedged in by the oppressive protocols of slavery, Free is a meditation on violence, memory, community, love and forgiveness.

Artistically, Beryl McBurnie's work influenced dancers throughout the Caribbean and beyond. She also devoted years to building the Little Carib Theatre. This book portrays the woman, explores the influences that shaped McBurnie and those whom she influenced in turn, and tells of her struggle to realize a vision she nurtured for decades.

This biography of Marcus Garvey documents the forging of his remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914-1918).

This succinct account of the life of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his development as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, teacher.

Explores the writer and his work with the intimacy of a friend and the perceptiveness of a scholar - essential reading for any student of Caribbean literature, and equally compelling for a general reader.

Situates the role Errol Barrow played in the transformation of Barbados in the wider Caribbean and international context. This study draws on archival records from Britain and Barbados, and interviews and other sources.

Traditionally a navigating and migratory people, Portuguese settlers came to the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century. Though few in number, the Portuguese contribution to their adopted homeland is of a significance beyond the small size of the community. The tale of the Madeirans in Trinidad and Tobago and Luso-Trinidadians and Tobagonians has gone untold. This is an attempt to tell their story.

A gifted young scholar clings desperately to part-time employment at a Caribbean university. Then, a post opens up on an unknown offshore campus in Portmore, Jamaica. Into this harsh yet delicate terrain ventures Candace Clarke, bent on taking root in an academic world. This tale of inner and outer landscapes marks a new departure in Caribbean fiction.

Examines five elections in Trinidad and Tobago over a ten-year period from 2000 to 2010 and, on the basis of this, works through some critical issues related to media and politics in the Caribbean. This is a pioneering study, with solid research and insightful analysis.

Buttressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras.