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Informationen zum Autor Philip W. Scher is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. He has worked in the Caribbean since 1993 and his recent publications include Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival (with Garth Green, 2007) and Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation (2003), as well as a number of articles on Caribbean heritage, folklore, religion, art and politics. Klappentext perspectives on The Caribbean "Genuflecting to no tired metaphors, this is a refreshing collection of cross-disciplinary voices that compel new ways of seeing and thinking about the still undiscovered Caribbean." Patricia Mohammed, University of the west Indies, St Augustine Presenting a broad understanding of the complex region of the Caribbean, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation provides a variety of viewpoints on the rich spectrum of Caribbean culture. Essays, carefully chosen from a vast body of existing literature, expose readers to a variety of approaches, voices and topics that have emerged in Caribbean studies. Readings are interdisciplinary in nature and integrate themes from history, folklore, sociology, anthropology and political economy. Both contemporary viewpoints and classic readings reveal how the Caribbean has led scholars to new ways of exploring cultural hybridity in contemporary society. Each section includes brief introductions to put the readings in context with the connections between modern Caribbean culture and its historical roots, and also includes suggested readings for more in-depth study. Perspectives on the Caribbean offers revealing insights into one of the most diverse and complex regions in the Americas. Zusammenfassung As concepts of globalization and transnationalism have given rise to an intense interest in the concept of creolization! more scholars and activists are turning to the Caribbean as a way of exploring notions of cultural hybridity! multiculturalism! and plurality in contemporary society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Acknowledgments of Sources. Introduction: The Caribbean in Perspective (Philip W. Scher). Part I: Living and Livelihood. Introduction. 1. Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries (Sidney W. Mintz). 2. Women in Jamaica's Urban Informal Economy: Insights from a Kingston Slum (Faye V. Harrison). 3. To Give and Take: Redistribution and Reciprocity in the Household Economy (Mona Rosendahl). Part II: Questions of Identity: "Race!" Ethnicity! Class! and Gender. Introduction. 4. What is "a Spanish"? Ambiguity and "Mixed" Ethnicity in Trinidad (Aisha Khan). 5. Homosexuality! Society! and the State: An Ethnography of Sublime Resistance in Martinique (David A. B. Murray). 6. Reconstructing Racial Identity: Ethnicity! Color! and Class among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico (Jorge Duany). Part III: Culture and Performance. Introduction. 7: Joking: The Training of the Man-of-Words in Talking Broad (Roger D. Abrahams). 8: Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy! Militarism! and Warfare(Elizabeth McAlister). 9: Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics(Frank E. Manning). 10: Copyright Heritage: Preservation! Carnival and the State in Trinidad (Philip W. Scher). Part IV: Caribbean Cosmologies. Introduction. 11: The Faces of the Cosmic Gods (Leslie G. Desmangles). 12: Selection from Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews (Barry Chevannes). 13: "Official" and "Popular" Hinduism in the Caribbean: Historical and Contemporary Trends in Surinam! Trinidad and Guyana (Steven Vertovec). Part V: Globalization! Migration! and Diaspora in the Caribbean. Introduction. 14: Globalization and the Development of a Caribbean Migration Culture (Elizabeth Thomas-Hope). 15: "The Blood Remains Haitian": Race! Nation! and Be...
