Bulletin du Bureau national d'ethnologie
Title | Bulletin du Bureau national d'ethnologie PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Anthropology |
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General History of the Caribbean
Title | General History of the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Sued-Badillo, Jalil |
Publisher | UNESCO Publishing |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2003-12-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 923103832X |
This is the first in a six-volume publication which examines the history of the Caribbean, its people and landscape on a thematic basis. This volume covers the history of the origins of the earliest Caribbean peoples and analyses their various political, social, cultural and economic organisations over time, in and around the region. Topics covered include: ethnohistorical research; biogeographic teleconnections; the Palaeoindians in Cuba and surrounding regions; agricultural societies; indigenous societies at the time of the Spanish Conquest; the hierarchy of chiefdoms; and the development of slavery.
The Spirits and the Law
Title | The Spirits and the Law PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Ramsey |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 2014-02-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0226703819 |
Vodou has often served as a scapegoat for Haiti’s problems, from political upheavals to natural disasters. This tradition of scapegoating stretches back to the nation’s founding and forms part of a contest over the legitimacy of the religion, both beyond and within Haiti’s borders. The Spirits and the Law examines that vexed history, asking why, from 1835 to 1987, Haiti banned many popular ritual practices. To find out, Kate Ramsey begins with the Haitian Revolution and its aftermath. Fearful of an independent black nation inspiring similar revolts, the United States, France, and the rest of Europe ostracized Haiti. Successive Haitian governments, seeking to counter the image of Haiti as primitive as well as contain popular organization and leadership, outlawed “spells” and, later, “superstitious practices.” While not often strictly enforced, these laws were at times the basis for attacks on Vodou by the Haitian state, the Catholic Church, and occupying U.S. forces. Beyond such offensives, Ramsey argues that in prohibiting practices considered essential for maintaining relations with the spirits, anti-Vodou laws reinforced the political marginalization, social stigmatization, and economic exploitation of the Haitian majority. At the same time, she examines the ways communities across Haiti evaded, subverted, redirected, and shaped enforcement of the laws. Analyzing the long genealogy of anti-Vodou rhetoric, Ramsey thoroughly dissects claims that the religion has impeded Haiti’s development.
The Specter of Races
Title | The Specter of Races PDF eBook |
Author | Anke Birkenmaier |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2016-06-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813938805 |
Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars. In response to the rise of scientific racism in Europe and the American hemisphere in the early twentieth century, anthropologists joined numerous writers and artists in founding institutions, journals, and museums that actively pushed for an antiracist science of culture, questioning pseudoscientific theories of race and moving toward more broadly conceived notions of ethnicity and culture. Birkenmaier surveys the work of key figures such as Cuban historian and anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, Haitian scholar and novelist Jacques Roumain, French anthropologist and museum director Paul Rivet, and Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre, focusing on the transnational networks of scholars in France, Spain, and the United States to which they were connected. Reviewing their essays, scientific publications, dictionaries, novels, poetry, and visual arts, the author traces the cultural study of Latin America back to these interdisciplinary discussions about the meaning of race and culture in Latin America, discussions that continue to provoke us today.
Excavations at Wari, Ayacucho, Peru
Title | Excavations at Wari, Ayacucho, Peru PDF eBook |
Author | Wendell Clark Bennett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Ayachcho (Peru : Dept.) |
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Peasants and Poverty (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Peasants and Poverty (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Mats Lundahl |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2015-05-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 131759391X |
Haiti is a country which, until the earthquake of 2010, remained largely outside the focus of world interest and outside the important international historical currents during its existence as a free nation. The nineteenth century was the decisive period in Haitian history, serving to shape the class structure, the political tradition and the economic system. During most of this period, Haiti had little contact with both its immediate neighbours and the industrialised nations of the world, which led to the development of Haiti as a peasant nation. This title, first published in 1979, examines the factors responsible for the poverty of the Haitian peasant, by using both traditional economic models as well as a multidisciplinary approach incorporating economics and other branches of social science. The analysis deals primarily with the Haitian peasant economy from the early 1950s to the early 1970s, examining in depth the explanations for the secular tendency of rural per capita incomes to decline during this period.
Historical and Economic Geography of the Southwest Peninsula of Haiti
Title | Historical and Economic Geography of the Southwest Peninsula of Haiti PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Street |
Publisher | |
Pages | 984 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Haiti |
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