Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History - Book Review
I reviewed this book on my About site, and even though it is clearly a revised dissertation by Frederick Smith, it's a fascinating study of the history of rum and it fits into the Caribbean social milieu. Smith is an archaeologist, and he was working at a site in Barbados about a decade ago when they stumbled across a burial. The workers wanted to pour a libation to keep away the spirits of the dead (called duppies), and Smith was off and running.
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Archaeology
Caribbean
Alcohol
History
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