Focuses on American and European tourist women in a transnational town in Atlantic Costa Rica renown for its intimate "vibe" and independent eco-oriented tourist development, where they grappled with the unexpected monetary aspects of intimate relations with Caribbean-Costa Rican men.
Discusses the multiple meanings of music for Panamanian Afro-Antillean identity in the Caribbean, by placing musical genres such as calypso, soka, and reggae, in the context of tourism development
People of African descent from the Caribbean and the Americas have been migrating to Africa since the eighteenth century. This article examines the process of identity formation among contemporary Diaspora Africans
14 pages., Online via JSTOR digital archive., Analysis revealed that the modes of dispute settlement in two Iranian communities were contingent upon the degree of kinship, and that modern changes in the two communities did not modify the relationship between dispute settlement and kinship obligations.
Addresses the place of Carnival in the creation of a national cultural narrative in Trinidad and Tobago and examines the role that such a narrative plays in the formation of a coherent national cultural identity
Contemporary immigrants can not be characterized as the "uprooted." Many are transmigrates, becoming firmly rooted in their new country but maintaining multiple linkages to their homeland
