Author Archives: Jerome Handler

Small-Scale Sugar Cane Farming in Barbados

1966 (Jerome S. Handler) “Small-Scale Sugar Cane Farming in Barbados.” Ethnology 5: 264-83. This paper describes the more prominent socio-cultural aspects of cane farming on small holdings and accounts for the importance of sugar as a cash crop in terms … Continue reading

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Some Aspects of Work Organization on Sugar Plantations in Barbados

1965 (Jerome Handler) “Some Aspects of Work Organization on Sugar Plantations in Barbados.” Ethnology 4: 16-38. This paper is specifically concerned with the more salient features of work organization on several small-scale sugar plantations in the Scotland or highland district … Continue reading

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The History of Arrowroot Production in Barbados and the Chalky Mount Arrowroot Growers’ Association, a Peasant Marketing Experiment that Failed

1965 (Jerome S. Handler) “The History of Arrowroot Production in Barbados and the Chalky Mount Arrowroot Growers’ Association, a Peasant Marketing Experiment that Failed.” JBMHS 31: 131-52. Over the years Barbados has produced and exported a variety of minor cash … Continue reading

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Notes on Pottery-Making in Antigua

1964 (Jerome S. Handler) “Notes on Pottery-Making in Antigua.” Man: A Record of Anthropological Science 64: 150-51 The following comments are based upon notes recorded during a brief stay in August, 1962, on the Lesser Antilles island of Antigua, British … Continue reading

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Pottery Making in Rural Barbados

1963 (Jerome Handler) “Pottery Making in Rural Barbados.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 19: 314-34. This paper describes some of the more salient technological, economic, and sociological factors surrounding the production of pottery as these existed in the early 1960s, when … Continue reading

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A Historical Sketch of Pottery Manufacture in Barbados

1963 (Jerome S. Handler) “A Historical Sketch of Pottery Manufacture in Barbados.” JBMHS 30: 129-53. Traces the roots of the island’s pottery industry within the context of the needs of early sugar manufacturing and the kinds of vessels that were … Continue reading

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