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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 183–185.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Avram Bornstein Small Axe Incorporated 2001 Dancehall Ethnography in Jamaica Avram Bornstein Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica. Norman Stolzoff . Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. 298 pages. ude boys and rastas, selectors, sound systems...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 133–148.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the Marcelins' prescient novel and addresses its critics in light of critical theory and ethnography. Small Axe Incorporated 2008 ...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 218–228.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Richard Price In the course of responding to the comments of Kenneth Bilby, Aisha Khan, and Deborah Thomas on Travels with Tooy, Price raises some questions suggested by the book: What is the place of long-term ethnography of the sort represented by Travelsin Caribbeanist research? How do we best...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 164–168.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and beyond. The essays here fall broadly into four categories—intellectual contexts, politics, literature, and ethnography. This introduction asks, does the concept of créolité have a future in the current situation of Antillean writing, which has lost much of its momentum, especially in relation to writing...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 137–146.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Justin Izzo This essay develops an anthropological genealogy of the créolité literary project. Examining works by Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, the author studies how the créolistes read ethnography and the social sciences into a revitalized creole literary history...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 184–192.
Published: 01 July 2017
... freedom and about politics in the Caribbean more broadly. The Caribbean region has been characterized as a place of political tragedy, in the wake of the repeated failures of revolutionary projects of national independence. Bonilla's ethnography of labor activism in Guadeloupe suggests that a different...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 193–200.
Published: 01 July 2017
... an ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla critiques modern notions of national sovereignty as the only and inevitable product of decolonization. Provocative as it is, her account challenges the methods, periodization, and habits of Caribbean history and highlights the blind spots of European studies...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 210–219.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Greg Beckett In this essay, anthropologist Greg Beckett responds to Rivke Jaffe’s, Nadège T. Clitandre’s, and Jhon Picard Byron’s critical engagements with his 2019 ethnography, There Is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port-au-Prince . Beckett discusses issues of representation and form...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 163–168.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Patricia Noxolo In a discussion of Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), the book is considered as ethnography written from “inside the circle” (Sadiya Hartman) of a generation of young Black men brought up in Jamaica. Nonetheless, Lewis shows genuine...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 89–99.
Published: 01 November 2013
...-taking of Creole practices,” we can surmise that what is being eschewed here is a narrow anthropological scientism and not the richer definition of ethnography as laid out by Marcus and Fischer above. 16 Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, Eloge de la créolité / In Praise...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
... ethnography In Santa Clara, Cuba, when the nightclubs close around 3:00 a.m., there is a collective cry of “Pa’l parque!” (“To the park!”), referring to Parque Vidal, the main square in the center of the city. There, trans and queer folks gather in the early hours of the morning to stretch the boundaries...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 113–124.
Published: 01 November 2013
..., and Ethnography,” Paragraph 32, no. 2 (2009): 168–81; Celia Britton, Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought (Oxford: Legenda, 2002); Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996); and Martin Munro, Shaping...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
...” is an aspect of the “dark horse poetics” I wish to describe here. 7 Talal Asad, “The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology,” in James Clifford and George Marcus, eds., Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and indigenous political subjectivities and social movements, gendered violence, and critical feminist geographies. Her book-in-progress, tentatively titled Unsettling Geographies: Antiblackness, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Dispossession in Guyana, is a feminist ethnography of indigenous land...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 210–217.
Published: 01 July 2009
... relevant . . . we must explore dialogue between people in differ- ent class positions and in often distant places throughout the Americas and Africa. Historiciza- tion and contextualization remain a primary responsibility. And we must continue to do careful ethnography. For when all is said...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... written extensively on French Caribbean literature. Her book The Poetics of Ethnography in Martinican Narratives: Exploring the Self and the Environment will be published by the University of Virginia Press in 2013. Her current project focuses on French travelers to the Caribbean in the seventeenth...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 239–242.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and social work from the University of Michigan and is currently conducting a historical ethnography on the transnational politics of same-gender intimacy in late-twentieth-century Jamaica. ronAld CuMMings is an associate professor in the department of English at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2019
... anthropologist’s experience in the field, these admissions of personal failures are certainly out of place in an ethnography published in 1969, in a genre then dominated by scientific models of objectivity and observation mostly disseminated by white men. While often understated in her text, her moments of unease...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 166–181.
Published: 01 November 2013
... representation within the discipline. The book's editors framed their critique as an investigation into the “poetics and politics of ethnography,” where ethnography meant not research method (the term is often used to name fieldwork) but rather the practice of writing about another culture. 8 This turn...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 102–107.
Published: 01 November 2011
... leaving the Caribbean he gave a talk, “Antilles et poésie des carrefours” (“Antilles and Poetry of the Crossroads in which he outlined a new poetics of ethnography. He moved ethnography away from remote and wild frontiers and poetry to the realm of the everyday: “What I first find seductive...