Download or read book Drinkers Drummers and Decent Folk written by John O. Stewart and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinkers is a multi-form text. Essays, poetry, and fiction present rural life in Trinidad. These texts are interspersed with analytic and exploratory sections on the ethnographic and fieldwork experience. Within a context which includes the West Indian sugar estate at its core, and the distant but very influential U.S.A. at the periphery, Stewart reveals villagers struggling with problems of individual identity, as well as with problems occasioned by the historical struggle between African, European, and Indian cultural forms.
Download or read book Drinkers Drummers and Decent Folk written by John O. Stewart and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-01-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinkers is a multi-form text. Essays, poetry, and fiction present rural life in Trinidad. These texts are interspersed with analytic and exploratory sections on the ethnographic and fieldwork experience. Within a context which includes the West Indian sugar estate at its core, and the distant but very influential U.S.A. at the periphery, Stewart reveals villagers struggling with problems of individual identity, as well as with problems occasioned by the historical struggle between African, European, and Indian cultural forms.
Download or read book Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories written by Lucy Evans and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores representations of community in Anglophone Caribbean short story collections and cycles of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Download or read book The Steelband Movement written by Stephen Stuempfle and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Steelband Movement examines the dramatic transformation of pan from a Carnival street music into a national art and symbol in Trinidad and Tobago. By focusing on pan as a cultural process, Stephen Stuempfle demonstrates how the struggles and achievements of the steelband movement parallel the problems and successes of building a nation. Stuempfle explores the history of the steelband from its emergence around 1940 as an assemblage of diverse metal containers to today's immense orchestra of high-precision instruments with bell-like tones. Drawing on interviews with different generations of pan musicians (including the earliest), a wide array of archival material, and field observations, the author traces the growth of the movement in the context of the grass-roots uprisings of the 1930s and 1940s, the American presence in Trinidad in World War II, the nationalist movement of the postwar period, the aftermath of independence from Britain in 1962, the Black Power protests and the oil boom of the 1970s, and the recession of recent years. The Steelband Movement suggests that the history of pan has involved a series of negotiations between different ethnic groups, socioeconomic classes, and social organizations, all of which have attempted to define and use the music according to their own values and interests. This drama provides a window into the ways in which Trinidadians have constructed various visions of a national identity.
Download or read book Writing Ethnographically written by Paul Anthony Atkinson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and authoritative exploration of ethnographic writing comes from one of the world′s leading academics in the field, Paul Atkinson. The third book in his seminal quartet on ethnographic research, it provides thoughtful, reflective guidance on a crucial skill that is often difficult to master. Informed throughout by extracts from Paul’s own writing, this book explores and examines a broad range of types and genres of ethnographic writing, from fieldnotes and ‘confessions’, to conventional ‘realist’ writing and more. Whilst highlighting the possibilities and implications of ethnographic text, this valuable resource will help those conducting ethnographic research select and adopt the most appropriate approach for their study.
Download or read book The West Indian Novel and Its Background written by Kenneth Ramchand and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the emergence of the West Indian novel in English, this work provides valuable insights into the social, cultural and political background, offering concise and focused accounts of the growth of education, the development of literacy, and the formation of West Indian Creole languages.
Download or read book Trinidad and Tobago written by Lise S. Winer and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the English and English Creole of Trinidad and Tobago. Sources from the early 19th through late 20th centuries are gathered from a wide range of materials: novels, editorials, advertisements, cartoons, proverbs, newspaper articles, plays, lyrics of traditional songs and calypsos, and oral interviews. Many of the older texts are now made easily accessible for the first time. The introduction includes descriptions of the historical background, the sound system, grammar and vocabulary, speech styles, social and linguistic interaction of Creole and English, and implications for education and spelling. The older sources demonstrate much closer links to other Caribbean English Creoles than previously recognized. The texts and recordings of oral interviews are invaluable resources for researchers and teachers in linguistics, Creole Studies, Caribbean studies, literature, anthropology and history.
Download or read book Feminist Narratives and the Sociology of Religion written by Nancy Nason-Clark and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2001 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 14 essays, US and Canadian sociologists of religion cultivate the growing gender and feminist consciousness in their profession, and challenge established scholars and graduate students to be cognizant of it. They combine biography and scholarly pursuits, academic rigor and personal passion. There is no index. c. Book News Inc.
Download or read book Symbolic Interaction written by Larry T. Reynolds and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.
Download or read book Symbolic Interaction written by Nancy J. Herman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
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Download or read book The American Tradition in Qualitative Research written by Yvonna S. Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridges to Humanity written by Bruce T. Grindal and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists are called visiting strangers in one of the fourteen essays in this multicultural book, and that term captures the essential mystery of the ethnographic experience: how can an anthropologist drop into a small Nigerian village or a Himalayan hillside and find friendship as well as information? How can people cross language and cultural barriers? Maintain observer-observed, but also personal, relationships? It seems nearly impossible, but the beauty of ethnography is that the friendships form and deepen, as related in these essays. The writers are innovative, humanist anthropologists, not bogged down with tables, charts, and scholarly apparatus. They are at the same time among the most skilled observers and reporters of experience and the authentic voice. Simply, they transcend quantitative safety and reach far into the human realm in this magical collection of living friends. Readers will enjoy hearing of life as it is felt in several continents, in tropical and subarctic temperatures, in spirited retellings of conversations, in music, in poems, and in the writers reflections. All the people in this book are real, and all have profound mysteries about them, beautifully wrought by courageous writers.
Download or read book Wake the Town and Tell the People written by Norman Craig Stolzoff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wake the Town Tell the People written by Norman C. Stolzoff and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of Dancehall, the dominant form of reggae music in Jamica since the early 1960s.
