Examines children's musical practices on Corn Island, some 52 miles off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, which has long been a site of cross-cultural interaction and exchange. In 1987, as part of the postwar peace agreements, two autonomous regions—north and south—were established on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. The cultural and education aspects of autonomy came to be envisioned largely through concepts of interculturalidad, or interculturalism. Children's musical practices enter into discourses of interculturalism in several ways. They are often important symbols of the future; informal genres of vernacular expression (such as singing games) are a key resource for curricular reform that aims to bring regional folklore into the classroom; and they are central to processes of cultural interaction, exchange, and transformation. This is because children's activities are often oriented toward playful improvisation and because children are key actors in processes of socialization and adaptation to changing circumstances. Expressive practices such as music are dialogic tools through which differences are enacted, through which boundaries are constructed within and between social groups. This understanding of interculturalism as an everyday practice helps us see how culture emerges from interaction and play and how communication is accomplished using a diverse pool of resources. This essay focuses on the children of Miskitu migrants on Corn Island, particularly on singing game performance.
An essay on the gendered aspects of war and revolution in Cuba and Nicaragua. According to the author, militarized violence in these states was hierarchical and ultimately created alternative privileged masculinities despite revolutionary movements' ideological commitments to equality. Details related to racial and gender binaries are also presented.
284 p., The Garifuna are a diasporic community that positions Yurumein (St. Vincent) at the center of its collective memory, and whose populations primarily reside in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and, more recently, in urban centers in the United States. This multi-sited, historio-ethnographic study traces the group's socio-political struggles over time and space against cultural dislocation, ethnic oppression, and culturally destructive forces.
Hooker,Juliet (Author) and Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Notre Dame, Ind: The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
27 p, "This paper analyzes autonomy regimes in Latin America, or rather the lack thereof....Nicaragua is one of the few countries in the region (as well as one of the first) where territorial political autonomy for regions inhabited by Afro-descendant and indigenous groups were [sic] adopted by the national state and enshrined at the level of constitutional law."--Abstract.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
319 p., An examination of Nicaragua's African roots. Reveals current manifestations in religion, dance, musical instruments, spells and incantations, meals, and African words.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22999
Notes:
Pages 171-209 in Ian Christoplos and John Farrington (eds.), Poverty, vulnerability and agricultural extension. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India. 251 pages.
