Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in JamaicaBased on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere. Located at the gateway to the New World in the plantation heartlands of the Americas, the settlement of Martha Brae, Jamaica, has witnessed the unfolding of two distinct yet interrelated histories. Exploring the