| Description |
ix, 302 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Global perspectives ; 3 |
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Global perspectives ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the Caribbean in perspective / Philip W. Scher -- Houses and yards among Caribbean peasantries / Sidney W. Mintz -- Women in Jamaica’s urban informal economy : insights from a Kingston slum / Faye V. Harrison -- To give and take : redistribution and reciprocity in the household economy / Mona Rosendahl -- What is "a Spanish"? Ambiguity and "mixed" ethnicity in Trinidad / Aisha Khan -- Homosexuality, society, and the state : an ethnography of sublime resistance in Martinique / David A. B. Murray -- Reconstructing racial identity : ethnicity, color, and class among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico / Jorge Duany -- Joking : the training of the man-of-words in Talking broad / Roger D. Abrahams -- Rara as popular army : hierarchy, militarism, and warfare / Elizabeth McAlister -- Celebrating cricket : the symbolic construction of Caribbean politics / Frank E. Manning -- Copyright heritage : preservation, carnival and the state in Trinidad / Philip W. Scher -- The faces of the cosmic gods / Leslie G. Desmangles -- Selection from Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews / Barry Chevannes -- "Official" and "popular" Hinduism in the Caribbean : historical and contemporary trends in Surinam, Trinidad and Guyana / Steven Vertovec -- Globalization and the development of a Caribbean migration culture / Elizabeth Thomas-Hope -- "The Blood Remains Haitian" : race, nation, and belonging in the transmigrant experience / Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron -- Designing women : corporate discipline and Barbados's off-shore pink-collar sector / Carla Freeman. |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Caribbean Area.
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Ethnicity -- Caribbean Area.
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Folklore -- Caribbean Area.
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Culture and globalization -- Caribbean Area.
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Cultural fusion -- Caribbean Area.
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Caribbean Area -- Social life and customs.
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| Added Author |
Scher, Philip W., 1965-
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| ISBN |
9781405105651 hardcover alkaline paper |
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1405105658 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9781405105668 paperback alkaline paper |
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1405105666 paperback alkaline paper |
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