The Folk Roots of Jamaican Cultural Identity

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• NOTE This paper was delivered as the Inaugural Lecture of The Most Honorable Edward Seaga, O.N., P.C., Distinguished Fellow, School of Graduate Studies and Research, May 12, 2005, The University of the West Indies Mona Campus. This is a work in progress. It is a much expanded version of an earlier presentation entitled The Contribution of Folk Culture to Cultural Identity which appeared in Caribbean Quarterly, Special Issue: The Plenaries-Conference on Caribbean culture in Honour of Rex Nettleford, Vol. 43, Nos. 1&2, March-June 1997. The paper presented at the Inaugural Lecture continues to be a work in progress to be expanded to book-length.
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