African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
190 p., Contributes to the understanding of ethnic, class, and gender relationships in the Caribbean, and it is notable for its emphasis on how individuals manipulate and manage social differences on a day-to-day basis. Using ideas of time as a lens through which to watch these divisions evolve, explores the implications of the existence of multiple models of time on social organization.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 570
Notes:
"This dissertation explores the discursive and material practices that Afro-Antilleans in the Archipelago of Bocas del Toro (Panama) employ to craft and assert their identity for tourist consumption. In participating in the transnational circuits of tourism, Panamanian Afro-Antilleans stage a complex and subtle cultural politics vis-à-vis the state and Panama's multicultural society. The transnational process that is tourism produces rather than reduces difference. This production must be understood historically and with respect to national racial policies." (author)
Examines Zora Neale Hurston's work, particularly her collection of folklore and ethnography of the American South, "Mules and Men." Looks at the author's role, the ways the ethnographer inscribes herself into the text, and speculates about Hurston's understanding of the limits of the impersonal researcher.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
p. 501
Notes:
This book breaks new theoretical and methodological ground in the study of the African diaspora in the Atlantic world. Leading scholars of archaeology, linguistics, and socio-cultural anthropology draw upon extensive field experiences and archival investigations of black communities in North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa to challenge received paradigms in Afro-American anthropology; Yelvington, K.A. (chapter) 'The Invention of Africa in Latin America and the Caribbean: Political Discourse and Anthropological Praxis, 1920-1940.'
Abrahams,Roger D. (Editor) and Szwed, John F. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
New Haven: Yale University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
444 P., A chronicle of the cultural relationships between African Americans and their African ancestors. The model of acculturation holds that the characteristics of plantation life in the New World were strongly influenced by African cultural and religious practices.
