Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation

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 Belonging in the Transmigrant Experience (Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Eugene Fouron).

16: Designing Women: Corporate Discipline and Barbados’s Off-shore Pink-Collar Sector (Carla Freeman).

Index.