An Archaeology Of Social Space » (1st Edition)

This unique volume examines the cognitive and material records of the spatial design and use - including maps, architectural drawings, landscapes, and historical treatises - of three coffee plantations in the Yallahs drainage of eastern Jamaica. Monographs concentrating on the historical archaeology of the Caribbean are rare, and this is the first to have space as its general area of study and coffee plantations as its specific focus. The volume is also significant in its cogent linkage of theory and data, and its treatment of social cognitive and material spaces as manifestations of a single set of phenomena.

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Examines the cognitive and material records of spatial design and use<-->including maps, architectural drawings, landscapes, and historical treatises<-->of three coffee plantations in the Yallahs drainage of eastern Jamaica. Overviews the rise and fall of the Jamaican coffee industry and how its fluctuations were influenced by the larger world economy, and discusses economic changes that set the stage for the creation of new social and material spaces in the region. Looks at ways in which these spaces served as an arena for the negotiation of power in a plantation context, both before and after the abolition of slavery. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.