240
Views
47
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Caribbean place identity: From family land to region and beyond

Pages 435-467 | Published online: 04 May 2010

References

Printed sources

  • Appadurai , Arjun . 1996 . Modernity at Large. Cultural Dimensions of Globalization , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press .
  • Austin , Diane J. 1983 . Culture and Ideology in the English‐Speaking Caribbean: A View from Jamaica . American Ethnologist , 19 (2) : 223 – 40 .
  • Basch , Linda , Schiller , Nina Glick and Blanc , Christina Szanton . 1994 . Nations Unbound. Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation‐States , Langhorne : Gordon and Breach .
  • Baud , Michiel . 1994 . Families and Migration: Towards an Historical Analysis of Family Networks . Economic and Social History in the Netherlands , 5 : 83 – 107 .
  • Besson , J. 1984 . “ Family‐Land and Caribbean Society: Toward an Ethnography of Afro‐Caribbean Peasantries. ” . In Perspectives on Caribbean Regional Identity , Edited by: Hope , E. M. 57 – 83 . Liverpool : Center for Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool .
  • _____ . 1987 . “ A Paradox in Caribbean Attitudes to Land. ” . In Land and Development in the Caribbean , Edited by: Besson , J. and Momsen , J. 13 – 45 . London : Macmillan .
  • _____ . 1995 . “ Land, Kinship and Community in the Post‐Emancipation Caribbean: Regional Perspectives and Societal Variations. ” . In Small Islands, Large Questions: Society, Culture and Resistance in the Post‐Emancipation Caribbean , Edited by: Olwig , Karen F. 73 – 99 . London : Frank Cass .
  • BurtonJanet n.d. Independence Day Celebrations on St. John. Manuscript.
  • _____ . 1990 . No more greased pole. St. John keeps jammin’ ‘til mornin’ . The Daily News , August 1 : C‐17 C‐19 60th Anniversary
  • Clifford , James . 1994 . Diasporas . Cultural Anthropology , 9 (3) : 302 – 38 .
  • Cohen , Anthony , ed. 1982 . Belonging. Identity and Social Organisation in British Rural Cultures , Manchester : Manchester University Press .
  • Crichlow , Michaeline A. 1994 . An Alternative Approach to Family Land Tenure in the Anglophone Caribbean: The Case of St. Lucia . Nieuwe West‐Indische Gids , 68 (1, 2) : 77 – 99 .
  • Drummond , Lee . 1980 . The Cultural Continuum: A Theory of Intersystems . Man , 15 : 352 – 74 .
  • Fardon , Richard . 1990 . “ Localizing Strategies: The Regionalization of Ethnographic Accounts. ” . In Localizing Strategies. Regional Traditions of Ethnographic Writing , Edited by: Fardon , R. 1 – 35 . Edinburgh : Scottish Academic Press, and Washington: The Smithsonian Institution .
  • Georges , Eugenia . 1990 . The Making of a Transnational Community. Migration, Development, and Cultural Change in the Dominican Republic , New York : Columbia University Press .
  • Gilroy , Paul . 1993 . The Black Atlantic. Modernity and Double Consciousness , London : Verso .
  • Schiller , Glick , Basch , Nina Linda and Blanc‐Szanton , Christina , eds. 1992 . Toward a Transnational Perspective on Migration , New York : The New York Academy of Sciences .
  • Glick Schiller , Nina and Fouron , Georges . 1990 . “Everywhere we go, we are in danger”: Timano and the Emergence of a Haitian Transnational Identity . American Ethnologist , 17 (2) : 329 – 347 .
  • Gmelch , George . 1992 . Double Passage: The Lives of Caribbean Migrants Abroad and Back Home , Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press .
  • Gupta , Akhil and Ferguson , James . 1992 . Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference . Cultural Anthropology , 7 : 6 – 23 .
  • Hall , Neville . 1985 . Maritime Maroons: Grand Marronage from the Danish West Indies . The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, , 42 : 476 – 98 .
  • _____ . 1987 . Review of Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St John . Hispanic American Historical Review , 67 (1) : 147 – 48 .
  • Handler , Richard . 1985 . On Dialogue and Destructive Analysis: Problems in Narrating Nationalism and Ethnicity . Journal of Anthropological Research , 41 (2) : 171 – 82 .
  • Hannerz , Ulf . 1992 . Cultural Complexity. Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning , New York : Columbia University Press .
  • _____ . 1996 . Transnational Connections. Culture, People, Places , London : Routledge .
  • Hendricks , G. L. 1974 . The Dominican Diaspora. From the Dominican Republic to New York City: Villagers in Transition , New York : Columbia University Teachers College Press .
  • Horowitz , Michael . 1971 . “ The Caribbean as a Socio‐cultural Area. ” . In Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean , Edited by: Horowitz , M. M. 17 – 46 . Garden City, New York : The Natural History Press .
  • Jackson , Jean . 1989 . Is There a Way to Talk about Making Culture Without Making Enemies? . Dialectical Anthropology , 14 : 127 – 43 .
  • Keesing , Roger M. 1982 . Kastom and Anticolonialism on Malaita: “Culture” as Political Symbol . Mankind , 13 (4) : 357 – 73 .
  • _____ . 1989 . Creating the Past. Custom and Identity in the Contemporary Pacific . The Contemporary Pacific , 1 (1, 2) : 19 – 42 .
  • _____ . 1991 . Reply to Trask . The Contemporary Pacific , 1 (1,2) : 168 – 71 .
  • Linnekin , Joycelyn . 1983 . Defining Tradition: Variations on the Hawaiian identify . American Ethnologist , 10 (2) : 241 – 52 .
  • _____ . 1991 . Text Bites and the R‐Word: The Politics of Representing Scholarship . The Contemporary Pacific , 1 (1,2) : 172 – 77 .
  • Malkki , Liisa . 1992 . National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees . Cultural Anthropology , 7 : 24 – 44 .
  • Manners , R. A. 1965 . Remittances and the Unit of Analysis in Anthropological Research . Southwestern Journal of Anthropology , 21 (3) : 179 – 95 .
  • Mintz , Sidney W. 1974 . Caribbean Transformations , Chicago : Aldine .
  • _____ . 1985 . “ From Plantations to Peasantries in the Caribbean. ” . In Caribbean Contours, S , Edited by: Mintz , W. and Price , S. 127 – 53 . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University .
  • _____ . 1996 . Enduring Substances, Trying Theories: The Caribbean Region as Oikoumèn . The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 2 (2) : 289 – 311 .
  • Mintz , Sidney and Price , Richard . 1976 . An Anthropological Approach to the Afro‐American Past A Caribbean Perspective , Institute for the Study of Human Issues Occasional Papers, no. 2 Philadelphia
  • Olwig , Karen Fog . 1985 . Cultural Adaptation & Resistance on St. John , Gainesville : University of Florida Press .
  • _____ . 1993 . Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro‐Caribbean Community of Nevis , Reading : Harwood Academic Publisher .
  • _____ . 1994 . “The Land is the Heritage”: Land and Community on St. John , Oral History Association, Monograph no. 1
  • _____ . 1997 . “ Cultural Sites: Sustaining a Home in a Deterritorialized World, ” . In Siting Culture: The Shifting Anthropological Object , Edited by: Olwig , Karen Fog and Hastrup , Kirsten . 17 – 38 . London : Routledge .
  • Patterson , Orlando . 1982 . Slavery and Social Death , Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press .
  • _____ . 1987 . “ The Emerging West Atlantic System: Migration, Culture, and Under‐development in the United States and the Circum‐Caribbean Region. ” . In Population in an Interacting World , Edited by: Willia , Alonso . 227 – 60 . Cambridge : Harvard University Press .
  • Philpott , S. B. 1968 . Remittance Obligations, Social Networks and Choice among Montserratian Migrants in Britain . Man , 3 (3) : 465 – 76 .
  • Richardson , Bonham . 1983 . Caribbean Migrants. Environment and Human Survival on St. Kitts and Nevis , Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press .
  • _____ . 1989 . “ Caribbean Migrations, 1838–1985. ” . In The Modern Caribbean , Edited by: Knight , F. W. and Palmer , C. A. 203 – 28 . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press .
  • Rubenstein , Hymie . 1987 . “ Folk and mainstream systems of land tenure and use in St Vincent. ” . In Land and Development in the Caribbean , Edited by: Besson , J. and Momsen , J. 70 – 87 . London : Macmillan .
  • Smith , M. G. 1965 . The Plural Society in the British West Indies , Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Smith , R. T. 1996 . The Matrifocal Family. Power, Pluralism, and Politics , London : Routledge .
  • Sørensen , Ninna Nyberg . 1995 . “ Telling Migrants Apart. The Experience of Migrancy among Dominican Locals and Transnationals. ” . University of Copenhagen . Ph.D. Dissertation
  • Soto , Isa Maria . 1987 . “ West Indian Child Fostering: Its Role in Migrant Exchanges. ” . In Caribbean Life in New York City , Edited by: Sutton , C. R. and Chaney , E. M. 131 – 49 . New York : Center for Migration Research .
  • Sutton , Constance R. 1987 . “ The Caribbeanization of New York City and the Emergence of a Transnational Socio‐Cultural System ” . In Caribbean Life in New York City , Edited by: Sutton , C. R. and Chaney , E. M. 15 – 30 . New York : Center for Migration Studies .
  • _____ . 1992 . “ Some Thoughts on Gendering and Internationalizing Our Thinking about Transnational Migration ” . In Toward a Transnational Perspective on Migration , Edited by: Schiller , Nina Glick . 241 – 49 . New York : The New Academy of Sciences .
  • _____ . Afro‐Caribbean Family Reunions: Rituals of Kinship in the Trans‐Atlantic World . Paper presented at the International Conference on the Caribbean Family and Living Arrangements in Britain and the Trans‐Atlantic World . March , Gloucester, UK.
  • Thomas‐Hope , Elizabeth . 1978 . “ The Establishment of a Migration Tradition: British West Indian Movements to the Hispanic Caribbean in the Century after Emancipation ” . In Caribbean Relations , Edited by: Clarke , Colin G. 66 – 81 . Liverpool : Centre for Latin American Studies .
  • _____ . 1992 . Explanation in Caribbean Migration , London : Macmillan .
  • _____ . 1995 . “ Island Systems and the Paradox of Freedom: Migration in the Post‐Emancipation Leeward Islands. ” . In Small Islands, Large Questions , Edited by: Olwig , K. F. 161 – 75 . London : Frank Cass .
  • Wilk , Richard . 1995 . “ Learning to be local in Belize: global systems of common difference. ” . In Worlds Apart. Modernity through the Prism of the Local , Edited by: Miller , Daniel . 110 – 33 . London : Routledge .
  • Wilson , Peter . 1973 . Crab Antics , New Haven : Yale University Press .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.