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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 173–180.
Published: 01 March 2014
... to state formation, statecraft, and political community to tentatively explore how “the state” has featured in Caribbean studies and specifically what the role of Caribbeanist anthropologists has been and might be. I am interested in understanding to what extent there has been an anthropological engagement...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 59–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
... on the ongoing importance of Carnegie’s scholarship. [email protected] [email protected] © Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Postnationalism Prefigured Caribbean intellectual generations race and nation Caribbean anthropology On 22 October 2022 we gathered at the University of Virginia...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2012
... to
shape a distinctive Caribbeanist anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, they did so with a
sharply critical self-consciousness of the historical peculiarities of the Caribbean as it existed
in the anthropological imagination.1 Oddly, central though the Caribbean was to the modern
identity...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 210–217.
Published: 01 July 2009
... an investigation of the role of anthropological knowledge within Caribbean Studies. As such, Travels opens a window on the anthropological contribution to more general debates about nation-building throughout the circum-Caribbean. The author tracks anthropology's disciplinary history vis-à-vis the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 208–210.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and capitalism in the Americas. His scholarship is featured in American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, and the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. nataSha liGhtfoot is an associate professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of Troubling Freedom: Antigua...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
Published: 01 July 2022
... writing has appeared in Current Anthropology , American Anthropologist , the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology , and Small Axe . He is presently completing his first book manuscript, a historical ethnography of the Caribbean petrostate of Trinidad and Tobago. R onald M endoza...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
...—a history best seen from the experience of Caribbean societies and peoples. Third, that anthropology has the capacity to provide us with the necessary moral optimism to rethink the relation between plurality and universalism that grounds the human condition, but to do so we must first rescue the concepts...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
... radically from the three-world conceptual premises that came to define Caribbean studies, Boorstin's article will be juxtaposed against another contemporary work that, conveniently, was addressed to the same island and also published in 1956— The People of Puerto Rico: A Study in Social Anthropology . Based...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 58–73.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of area studies and diaspora studies. And Karla Slocum and Deborah Thomas, “Caribbean Studies, Anthropology, and US Academic Realignments: Insights from Caribbeanist Anthropology,” American Anthropologist 105, no. 3 (2003): 553–65; and Sidney Mintz, “The Localization of Anthropological Practice: From...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
...-00001 . 8 Christopher Loperena, “Radicalize Multiculturalism? Garifuna Activism and the Double-Bind of Participation in Postcoup Honduras,” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 21, no. 3 (2016): 525. 7 Tiffany Lethabo King, preface to The Black Shoals: Offshore...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
... and the Otherwise: Plantations, Garrisons, and Being Human in the Caribbean,” Anthropological Theory 16, nos. 2–3 (2016): 183. 47 See Alina Doodnath, “Abdulah ‘Not Surprised’ by Beetham Response to Hinds,” Loop T&T News , 15 August 2018, www.looptt.com/content/abdulah-not-surprised-beetham-response...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 178–185.
Published: 01 November 2021
..., “Time and the Otherwise: Plantations, Garrisons, and Being Human in the Caribbean,” Anthropological Theory 16, nos. 2–3 (2016): 177–200. 18 See Nauja Kleist and Stef Jansen, “Introduction: Hope over Time—Crisis, Immobility, and Future-Making,” History and Anthropology 27, no. 4 (2016): 373–92...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2018
... antillais , the 1981 text whose politics and aesthetics of anticolonial antillanité helped give birth to the Éloge ’s reflections on creoleness. Indeed, it is doubly appropriate in the context of this essay on the créolistes ’ relationship to anthropology and Caribbean literary history (in particular...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 89–105.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., as I recall. DS : After Cornell you went to Johns Hopkins University for graduate school. And you went there to study anthropology in a department that had only recently been formed by Richard Price and Sidney Mintz, two giants of Caribbean anthropology. What drew you there? Who else of note...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 108–118.
Published: 01 July 2022
... Human in the Caribbean,” Anthropological Theory 16, nos. 2–3 (2016): 182. 18 See Percy C. Hintzen, “Afro-Creole Nationalism as Elite Domination: The English-Speaking West Indies,” in Charles P. Henry, ed., Foreign Policy and the Black (Inter)National Interest (Albany: State University of New...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 191–204.
Published: 01 March 2022
... that was ultimately too fleeting to take root and shift the general order of Jamaican society and its narrative? Suspending the moment of repair so that it lingers—even if just in my text—counters the dominant inheritance of injury, a concern Black and Caribbean studies and anthropology have worked to make sense...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., “Public Bodies: Virginity Testing, Redemption Songs,
and Racial Respect in Jamaica,” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 11, no. 1 (Spring, 2006):
1–31; Natasha Tinsley, “What is a Uma? Women Performing African Diaspora Sexuality in Paramaribo, Suriname...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., practices, and allegiances that
are elaborated to an unusual degree in the Caribbean. Th e schema is also particularly
pertinent as a measure of the allegiances of cultural criticism, which are what I propose
to study here.
1. Peter Wilson, Crab Antics: Th e Social Anthropology of English...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 106–179.
Published: 01 February 2006
...; “Foreword” to James G. Leyburn, Th e Haitian Peoplee (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966); “Th e
Caribbean as a Socio-Cultural Area,” Cahiers d’Histoire Mondialee 10, no. 4 (1966): 912–37; “Foreword” to
Norman E. Whitten and John F. Szwed eds., Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 213–222.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Yarimar Bonilla © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 This bibliography brings together works by and about Michel-Rolph Trouillot to showcase the range, importance, and reach of Trouillot's contributions to the fields of anthropology, history, Caribbean studies, and Haitian studies. Effort has...
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