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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 210–219.
Published: 01 November 2021
... anthropologists. I appreciate his thorough accounting of the first generation of Haitian scholars who laid the foundation for so much of our understanding of Haitian history and culture. 3 I had, in fact, come across the Dunham/Herskovits letters as part of a project, never completed, on the postoccupation...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 1–16.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of life in a racially divided African colonial city, offering a precursor to Frantz Fanon’s portrayal of the settler town and the colonized town in The Wretched of the Earth . [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 Haitian anthropologist La Voix des Femmes Léopoldville “Zone...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 132–154.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Atlantic “guild” that Trouillot deconstructs in his historical writings that the ideas of nineteenth-century Haitian historians such as Baron de Vastey, Hérard Dumesle, Beaubrun Ardouin, and Thomas Madiou produced an immeasurable influence on the direction of historical scholarship across the world...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 210–217.
Published: 01 July 2009
... at different
times to African arrivants and their descendants? And how did the various demographic pro-
files and social conditions of particular New World settings encourage or inhibit these cultural
processes? In short, what is it that made what Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 60–78.
Published: 01 July 2022
... interview for TeleHaiti, a television station in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Houlberg, a Chicago-based curator, artist, photographer, art historian, anthropologist, and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), was doing local press for a recently opened exhibition that she...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 89–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
... These literary issues have properly anthropological antecedents, as ethnographers in the Caribbean have sought to account for the various kinds of hybridity that Creole cultures mobilize in everyday life. An early yet famous example is Haitian anthropologist Jean Price-Mars's situating of folklore and syncretism...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 186–198.
Published: 01 November 2021
...: “Like all accounts, the one presented here is partial. I make no claim to speak for all Haitians” (17). Despite his attempt to write from the inside and his desire to see the world from a Haitian perspective, he is keenly aware of his “outsider” position and the predicament of the anthropologist who...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... a particularly disastrous midnight excursion to the Haitian countryside, for being “thoughtless, obstinate, unkind, inconsiderate, and finally stupid in his estimation, to follow continually this obsession to get to the bottom of things” (40). Though undoubtedly a part of every anthropologist’s experience...
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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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Small Axe (2007) 11 (2): 209–216.
Published: 01 June 2007
... the John Carter Brown Library was
sponsoring a conference on the Haitian Revolution. I was the only novelist attending. There
was one scholar of comparative literature (Léon-François Hoffman) and one anthropologist
(Sidney Mintz). The rest were historians of the Haitian Revolution—many rising stars...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 169–177.
Published: 01 March 2015
... space have been most sensitively described and reflected upon by ethnographer Gina A. Ulysse, in Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-Making in Jamaica (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 10 Ann Laura Stoler, introduction to Ann Laura...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., the
suppression of the impact of the Haitian Revolution from historical memory was also
accompanied by a proliferation of negative reports in the Western press. Disparaging
accounts by nineteenth-century European and North American observers, travelers, and
diplomats portrayed the black republic as a land...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Collaborative Doctoral Award Holder with Tate Liverpool for the project Haiti in Art: Creating and Curating in the Black Atlantic . Her research focuses on the exhibition of Haitian art from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary moment, with a particular focus on postcolonial identities in a global...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149.
Published: 01 September 2005
... researchers on the subject Th e Ameri-
can anthropologist Melville Herskovits, who pioneered the concept that vital elements
of African culture were important humanizing factors in the Western Hemisphere
also regretted “the absence of graphic and plastic arts in Haitian culture Maya
Deren, a trained fi...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 103–114.
Published: 01 July 2024
... University. It appeared in the issue “Caribbean Rasanblaj,” a special issue of e-misférica guest-edited by the Haitian anthropologist and poet Gina Athena Ulysse. 10 The call for papers elaborated the meaning of the Haitian Kreyòl word Rasanblaj : “Defined as assembly, compilation, enlisting...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 52–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Nadève Ménard French is usually referred to as an elite language in the context of Haiti. By contrast, Haitian Creole is acknowledged as the language of the people. In this essay, Nadève Ménard argues that it is crucial to move beyond this simplistic paradigm. While the Caribbean is generally...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 131–142.
Published: 01 March 2023
... anthropologist Jean Comhaire, when Césaire arrived in Haiti, and there is no evidence (to date) that these women ever met in person. Additionally, Joseph-Gabriel and I have discussed Césaire’s connection to Haitian women, particularly the Haitian women’s movement, which was at its height in 1944, but we have...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (3 (27)): 142–150.
Published: 01 October 2008
...
the strongest. In distinctive approaches, each essayist provides sharp analyses that explore the
complexities of religion, history, and politics illustrated in Duval Carrié’s art work. Cultural
anthropologist Rachel Beauvoir-Dominique’s rudimentary listing of the Haitian pantheon of
lwas...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 18–36.
Published: 01 March 2016
... to address these gaps in our knowledge of nineteenth-century popular music in Haitian Creole, while remaining mindful of some of the issues faced by the twentieth-century anthropologists and ethnomusicologists whose fieldwork and experience have informed our practice. Politics may also appear obliquely...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 123–140.
Published: 01 July 2014
... authority and male prowess, these allegations are private hearsay , expressive of the social power of secret societies, similar to the function of rumors about assault sorcery in Guyana. 22 Yet such private allegations helped create a climate of suspicion that landed Haitians in jail on charges...
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