Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance
Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance examines the Caribbean popular – an idea that has been an important and contested terrain for exploring the dynamic and oftentimes subversive cultural expressions of the region.
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From Bush to Stage: The Shifting Performing Geography of Haitian Rara and Cuban Gagá
Yanique Hume
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The Evidence of Things Not Photographed: Slavery and Historical Memory in the British West Indies
Krista Thompson
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The Creative Economy and Creative Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean
Keith Nurse
Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora
Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora presents a critical appraisal of the range of issues and themes that have been pivotal in the study of Caribbean societies. Written from the perspective of primarily Caribbean authors and renowned scholars of the region.
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On the Social Phenomenonof “Transculturation” and Its Importance in Cuba
Transatlantic African Survivals and the Dynamism of Negro Culture
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Of the Marvellous Realism of the Haitians
“Preface” and “Afrocubanism”
“What is Art?”
History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas
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Introduction to Creole Religions of the Caribbean:
The Spirit of the Thing:
Healing the Nation:
Ritual in Diaspora:
Visitation
Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean
Examining the relationship between living bodies and the spirits of the dead, the contributors investigate the changes in cosmologies and rituals in the cultural sphere of death in relation to political developments, state violence, legislation, policing, and identity politics.
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