The Jumbies’ Playing Ground

The Jumbies’ Playing Ground
Author: Robert Wyndham Nicholls
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1617036110


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A study of the carnival traditions that created "whole theater" folk pageants


The Jumbies’ Playing Ground
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Robert Wyndham Nicholls
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-14 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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A study of the carnival traditions that created "whole theater" folk pageants
The Jumbies' Playing Ground
Language: en
Pages: 528
Authors: Robert Wyndham Nicholls
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-14 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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During the masquerades common during carnival time, jumbies (ghosts or ancestral spirits) are set free to roam the streets of Caribbean nations, turning the wor
The Jumbies
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Tracey Baptiste
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-26 - Publisher: Algonquin Books

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Corinne La Mer claims she isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They’re just tricksters made up by
Island Time
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Jessica Swanston Baker
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-04 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A close look at how wylers, a popular musical style from the island of St. Kitts and Nevis, expresses a unique mode of relation in the postcolonial Caribbean. I
Performing Wisdom
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Dominica Dipio
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-10 - Publisher: Rodopi

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This is the third collection produced by members of a six-year research project, funded by the NUFU (Norwegian Programme for Development, Research, and Educatio