Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag
Автор:Katherine E. Browne Год: 2004 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 291 ISBN: 0292702922 "In this innovative work, Browne pierces the silence that has hidden the world of creole economics in the literature on the Antilles. The men's social world of creoleness has been much written about. But the ways that creoleness infuses everyday economic life, the ways that these practices that were built up in resistance (first to slavery, later to colonialism) actually operate, has never before been laid bare. A fine example of how anthropology still has something original to teach us." —Richard Price, Dittman Professor of American Studies, Anthropology, and History at the College of William & Mary What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three...
