Anthropology of the Caribbean: Annotations 1963-2005

Handbook of Latin American Studies

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1 Abenon, Lucien Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et la communaute reformee de Capesterre sous L'Ancien Regime. 1977. Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et la communaute reformee de Capesterre sous L'Ancien Regime. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe 32 (2):25-62. Author deals with origin of Protestants in Guadeloupe, their social situation, problem of property, and maintenance of the religion into 18th century. Rather than a history of Protestantism in Guadeloupe, this is an essay on its importance in the religious affairs of the island during the Ancient Regime. Utilizing available source material, author discusses origin (geographic and socioeconomic) of Protestants, how they responded to revocation of Edict of Nantes, and how Protestantism, despite the authorities, remained a vital force in Guadeloupe into 18th century, GUADELOUPE. 1977 Abenon, Lucien Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et la communaute reformee de Capesterre sous L'Ancien Regime. 1977. Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et la communaute reformee de Capesterre sous L'Ancien Regime. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe 32 (2):25-62. Author deals with origin of Protestants in Guadeloupe, their social situation, problem of property, and maintenance of the religion into 18th century. Rather than a history of Protestantism in Guadeloupe, this is an essay on its importance in the religious affairs of the island during the Ancient Regime. Utilizing available source material, author discusses origin (geographic and socioeconomic) of Protestants, how they responded to revocation of Edict of Nantes, and how Protestantism, despite the authorities, remained a vital force in Guadeloupe into 18th century, GUADELOUPE.

2 Abraham, Eva Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Households in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles 1993. Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Households in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. In Where Did All the Men Go? Female-Headed/Female-Supported Households in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Joan P. Mencher and Anne Okongwu, eds. Pp. 89-106. Boulder: Westview Press. Changes in the social position of women (specifically as reflected in marriage rates and percentages of children born to unmarried mothers) are linked to major changes in the economy of Curacao. CURACAO. 1993 Abraham, Eva Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Households in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles 1993. Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Households in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. In Where Did All the Men Go? Female-Headed/Female-Supported Households in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Joan P. Mencher and Anne Okongwu, eds. Pp. 89-106. Boulder: Westview Press. Changes in the social position of women (specifically as reflected in marriage rates and percentages of children born to unmarried mothers) are linked to major changes in the economy of Curacao. CURAcAO.

3 Abrahams, Roger The West Indian Tea Meeting: An Essay in Civilization. 1976. The West Indian Tea Meeting: An Essay in Civilization. In Old Roots in New Lands. Ann M. Pescatello, ed. Pp. 173-208. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press With specific reference to "tea meetings" on Nevis and St. Vincent, author provides a thorough review of the history and the development of this institution in the British Caribbean. Introduced by Methodist missionaries into the region in order to facilitate the teaching of Euro-Christian modes of worship, it soon became one of the more important community events but one in which the very excesses of the African style which it set out to counteract were incorporated into its performance. As in other syncretisms, African structural patterns were central to the West Indian "tea meeting" even though some, if not many, of the elements used were European in origin. NEVIS. ST. VINCENT. BRITISH WEST INDIES 1976 Abrahams, Roger The West Indian Tea Meeting: An Essay in Civilization. 1976. The West Indian Tea Meeting: An Essay in Civilization. In Old Roots in New Lands. Ann M. Pescatello, ed. Pp. 173-208. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press With specific reference to "tea meetings" on Nevis and St. Vincent, author provides a thorough review of the history and the development of this institution in the British Caribbean. Introduced by Methodist missionaries into the region in order to facilitate the teaching of Euro-Christian modes of worship, it soon became one of the more important community events but one in which the very excesses of the African style which it set out to counteract were incorporated into its performance. As in other syncretisms, African structural patterns were central to the West Indian "tea meeting" even though some, if not many, of the elements used were European in origin. NEVIS. ST. VINCENT. BRITISH WEST INDIES

4 Abrahams, Roger D. British West Indian Proverbs and Proverb Collections 1968. British West Indian Proverbs and Proverb Collections. Proverbium 10:239-243. Short statement on the continuous interest shown by sojourners in the West Indies in West Indian proverbs as well as an itemization of the principal collections of this form of expression. BRITISH WEST INDIES. 1968 Abrahams, Roger D. British West Indian Proverbs and Proverb Collections 1968. British West Indian Proverbs and Proverb Collections. Proverbium 10:239-243. Short statement on the continuous interest shown by sojourners in the West Indies in West Indian proverbs as well as an itemization of the principal collections of this form of expression. BRITISH WEST INDIES.

5 Abrahams, Roger D. The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in the British West Indies 1967. The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in the British West Indies. Journal of Inter-American Studies 9(3): 456-480. Examination of the factors that brought African and European elements together to form a British West Indian folklore tradition. Historical, geographical, ecological, social and economic organizational factors are considered before introducing an interesting section on the aesthetic principles and tropisms which give the folklore of the region its characteristic form. BRITISH WEST INDIES. 1967 Abrahams, Roger D. The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in the British West Indies 1967. The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in the British West Indies. Journal of Inter-American Studies 9(3): 456-480. Examination of the factors that brought African and European elements together to form a British West Indian folklore tradition. Historical, geographical, ecological, social and economic organizational factors are considered before introducing an interesting section on the aesthetic principles and tropisms which give the folklore of the region its characteristic form. BRITISH WEST INDIES.

6 Abrahams, Roger D. Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies 1974. Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. Sea shanties, their sociocultural context and music, from three British West Indian communities: Newcastle, Nevis; Plymouth, Tobago; and Barouallie, St. Vincent. Of particular interest is the chapter on Barouallie where whaling is still a significant occupation and where the tradition of sea shanties appears to be flourishing. BRITISH WEST INDIES. NEVIS. TOBAGO. ST. VINCENT. 1974 Abrahams, Roger D. Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies 1974. Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. Sea shanties, their sociocultural context and music, from three British West Indian communities: Newcastle, Nevis; Plymouth, Tobago; and Barouallie, St. Vincent. Of particular interest is the chapter on Barouallie where whaling is still a significant occupation and where the tradition of sea shanties appears to be flourishing. BRITISH WEST INDIES. NEVIS. TOBAGO. ST. VINCENT.

7 Abrahams, Roger D. The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture. 1983. The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture. Baltimore, MD. The Johns Hopkins University Press. A collection of 11 excellent articles by Abrahams on the role of the verbal performer in Nevis, St. Kitts, Tobago, and St. Vincent. Objective of volume is to establish the presence and importance of a performance complex in the English-speaking Caribbean, a set of traits which articulates expressive relationships. COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN. NEVIS. ST. KITTS. TOBAGO. ST. VINCENT. 1983 Abrahams, Roger D. The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture. 1983. The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: Performance and the Emergence of Creole Culture. Baltimore, MD. The Johns Hopkins University Press. A collection of 11 excellent articles by Abrahams on the role of the verbal performer in Nevis, St. Kitts, Tobago, and St. Vincent. Objective of volume is to establish the presence and importance of a performance complex in the English-speaking Caribbean, a set of traits which articulates expressive relationships. COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN. NEVIS. ST. KITTS. TOBAGO. ST. VINCENT.

8 Abrahams, Roger D. British West Indian Folk Drama and the 'Life Cycle' Problem 1972. British West Indian Folk Drama and the 'Life Cycle' Problem. Austin: University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies. Utilizing Christmas plays and tea meetings from the British Leewards as evidence, author argues against the interpretation of these forms in British folk drama as vestiges of some archetypal 'life-cycle play'. through which it is argued, the tradition-oriented peasantry once expressed its agrarian vision of the totality of man's experience in the seasonal cycle and in the interdependence of life and death. "This explanation is seen by the author as an urban-rooted, sophisticated, and ethnocentric judgment and not consistent with the facts. This emphasis on the life-cycle interpretation has simply overshadowed other equally valid community strategies in the playing of festival drama." The text of a "Bull Play" from Nevis is appended. LEEWARD ISLANDS. NEVIS. 1972 Abrahams, Roger D. British West Indian Folk Drama and the 'Life Cycle' Problem 1972. British West Indian Folk Drama and the 'Life Cycle' Problem. Austin: University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies. Utilizing Christmas plays and tea meetings from the British Leewards as evidence, author argues against the interpretation of these forms in British folk drama as vestiges of some archetypal 'life-cycle play'. through which it is argued, the tradition-oriented peasantry once expressed its agrarian vision of the totality of man's experience in the seasonal cycle and in the interdependence of life and death. "This explanation is seen by the author as an urban-rooted, sophisticated, and ethnocentric judgment and not consistent with the facts. This emphasis on the life-cycle interpretation has simply overshadowed other equally valid community strategies in the playing of festival drama." The text of a "Bull Play" from Nevis is appended. LEEWARD ISLANDS. NEVIS.

9 Abrahams, Roger D. 'Pull Out Your Purse and Pay': A St. George Mumming From the British West Indies 1968. 'Pull Out Your Purse and Pay': A St. George Mumming From the British West Indies. Folklore 79:176-201. London: Folk-Lore Society. Texts of the St. George play from St. Kitts and Nevis with analytic discussion as to how these dramas accrued their specific dialogue and characters. NEVIS. 1968 Abrahams, Roger D. 'Pull Out Your Purse and Pay': A St. George Mumming From the British West Indies 1968. 'Pull Out Your Purse and Pay': A St. George Mumming From the British West Indies. Folklore 79:176-201. London: Folk-Lore Society. Texts of the St. George play from St. Kitts and Nevis with analytic discussion as to how these dramas accrued their specific dialogue and characters. NEVIS.

10 Abrahams, Roger D. Public Drama and Common Values in Two Caribbean Islands 1968. Public Drama and Common Values in Two Caribbean Islands. Trans-action 5(8): 62-71. St. Louis: Washington University. Examination of differences between Tobago and Nevis in traditional patterns of public performance, focusing on the man-of-words tradition. Differences are seen as being closely related to differences in the type of social structure which has evolved in each of the islands. NEVIS. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. 1968 Abrahams, Roger D. Public Drama and Common Values in Two Caribbean Islands 1968. Public Drama and Common Values in Two Caribbean Islands. Trans-action 5(8): 62-71. St. Louis: Washington University. Examination of differences between Tobago and Nevis in traditional patterns of public performance, focusing on the man-of-words tradition. Differences are seen as being closely related to differences in the type of social structure which has evolved in each of the islands. NEVIS. TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.