Article published In: Substrate Influence in Creole Formation
Edited by Bettina Migge and Norval Smith
[Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 22:1] 2007
► pp. 17–36
Some anthropological musings on Creolization
Published online: 6 April 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.22.1.03pri
https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.22.1.03pri
This paper traces the move of the concept of “creolization” from the
discipline of linguistics to those of anthropology and history during the
second half of the twentieth century, focusing on its uses in New World
slavery studies. Two positions are contrasted in recent studies of North
American slavery, those of African-Centrists and those of creolists, with
the first stressing the continued importance of African heritage and
identities in the New World and the second emphasizing the newness of the
institutions that enslaved Africans and their descendants created in the
Americas. Several exemplary studies of creolization in different parts of
the Americas are reviewed. The paper suggests that ideology and subject
position often drive historical analyses and that only strict
historicization will permit further advances in understanding the complex
processes that we call “creolization.”
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