Category Archives: Sugar, Arrowroot, and Pottery Production

2009 (M. W. Hauser and J. Handler), Change in Small Scale Pottery Manufacture in Antigua, West Indies. African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. December. Today, in a handful of Caribbean islands (e.g., Jamaica, Martinique, Barbados, Antigua, Nevis, and St. Lucia), persons of African … Continue reading →

1971    The History of Arrowroot and the Origin of Peasantries in the British West Indies. Jl. of Caribbean History 2: 46-93. This paper describes the patterns of consumption, production, and distribution of arrowroot from the 17th century to the middle … Continue reading →

1966    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 of the Barbadian … Continue reading →

1965    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 of Barbados in … Continue reading →

1965    The History of Arrowroot Production in Barbados and the Chalky Mount Arrowroot Growers’ Association, a Peasant Marketing Experiment that Failed. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 31:131-52. Over the years Barbados has produced and exported a variety … Continue reading →

1964    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 West Indies. Notes … Continue reading →

1963    Pottery Making in Rural Barbados. Southwestern Jl. of Anthrop 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 field work … Continue reading →

1963    A Historical Sketch of Pottery Manufacture in Barbados. Jl. of the Barbados Mus. and Hist. Soc. 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 … Continue reading →