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Annotations 1963-2005 The Anthropological Caribbeana: Annotations 1963-2005 Lambros Comitas CIFAS Author Title Description Annotation Subject Headings 1977. Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et la Les Protestants de la Guadeloupe et Author deals with origin of Protestants in Guadeloupe, their social situation, problem of property, and communauté réformée de Capesterre sous Abénon, Lucien la communauté réformée de maintenance of the religion into 18th century. Rather than a history of Protestantism in Guadeloupe, this is an GUADELOUPE. L'Ancien Régime. Bulletin de la Société Capesterre sous L'Ancien Régime. essay on its importance in the religiou d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe 32 (2):25-62. 1993. Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Industrialization on Female-Headed Caught in the Shift: The Impact of Households in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Industrialization on Female-Headed Changes in the social position of women (specifically as reflected in marriage rates and percentages of Abraham, Eva In Where Did All the Men Go? Female- CURAÇAO. Households in Curaçao, Netherlands children born to unmarried mothers) are linked to major changes in the economy of Curaçao. Headed/Female-Supported Households in Antilles Cross-Cultural Perspective. Joan P. Mencher and Anne Okongwu 1976. The West Indian Tea Meeting: An With specific reference to "tea meetings" on Nevis and St. Vincent, author provides a thorough review of the The West Indian Tea Meeting: An Essay in Civilization. In Old Roots in New NEVIS. ST. VINCENT. Abrahams, Roger history and the development of this institution in the British Caribbean. Introduced by Methodist missionaries Essay in Civilization. Lands. Ann M. Pescatello, ed. Pp. 173-208. BRITISH WEST INDIES into the region in order to facilit Westport, CT: Greenwood Press British West Indian Proverbs and 1968. British West Indian Proverbs and Short statement on the continuous interest shown by sojourners in the West Indies in West Indian proverbs as Abrahams, Roger D. BRITISH WEST INDIES. Proverb Collections Proverb Collections. Proverbium 10:239-243. well as an itemization of the principal collections of this form of expression. 1967. The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in Examination of the factors that brought African and European elements together to form a British West Indian The Shaping of Folklore Traditions in Abrahams, Roger D. the British West Indies. Journal of Inter- folklore tradition. Historical, geographical, ecological, social and economic organizational factors are BRITISH WEST INDIES. the British West Indies American Studies 9(3): 456-480. considered before introducing an interest Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: 1974. Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Sea shanties, their sociocultural context and music, from three British West Indian communities: Newcastle, BRITISH WEST INDIES. Abrahams, Roger D. Three Essays on Shantying in the Three Essays on Shantying in the West Nevis; Plymouth, Tobago; and Barouallie, St. Vincent. Of particular interest is the chapter on Barouallie where NEVIS. TOBAGO. ST. West Indies Indies. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. whaling is still a significant occu VINCENT. 1983. The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: COMMONWEALTH The Man-of-Words in the West Indies: A collection of 11 excellent articles by Abrahams on the role of the verbal performer in Nevis, St. Kitts, Performance and the Emergence of Creole CARIBBEAN. NEVIS. Abrahams, Roger D. Performance and the Emergence of Tobago, and St. Vincent. Objective of volume is to establish the presence and importance of a performance Culture. Baltimore, MD. The Johns Hopkins ST. KITTS. TOBAGO. Creole Culture. complex in the English-speaking Caribbean, University Press. ST. VINCENT. 1972. British West Indian Folk Drama and the Utilizing Christmas plays and tea meetings from the British Leewards as evidence, author argues against the British West Indian Folk Drama and LEEWARD ISLANDS. Abrahams, Roger D. 'Life Cycle' Problem. Austin: University of interpretation of these forms in British folk drama as vestiges of some archetypal 'life-cycle play'. through the 'Life Cycle' Problem NEVIS. Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies. which it is argued, the tradition-ori 1968. 'Pull Out Your Purse and Pay': A St. 'Pull Out Your Purse and Pay': A St. George Mumming From the British West Texts of the St. George play from St. Kitts and Nevis with analytic discussion as to how these dramas accrued Abrahams, Roger D. George Mumming From the British NEVIS. Indies. Folklore 79:176-201. London: Folk- their specific dialogue and characters. West Indies Lore Society. 1968. Public Drama and Common Values in Examination of differences between Tobago and Nevis in traditional patterns of public performance, focusing Public Drama and Common Values in NEVIS. TRINIDAD AND Abrahams, Roger D. Two Caribbean Islands. Trans-action 5(8): 62- on the man-of-words tradition. Differences are seen as being closely related to differences in the type of Two Caribbean Islands TOBAGO. 71. St. Louis: Washington University. social structure which has evolved in ea 1968. Charles Walters: West Indian Charles Walters: West Indian Autolycus. Western Folklore 27(2): 77-95. Collection of lyrics written by Charles Walters, the most influential ballad monger of Nevis and St. Kitts, with a Abrahams, Roger D. ST. KITTS NEVIS. Autolycus Berkeley: Published for the California Folklore factual account of the incidents that led to the ballads. Society by the University of California Press. Analysis of Vincentian typology of speech acts and events and a demonstration that continuities between A Performance-Centered Approach 1970. A Performance-Centered Approach to Abrahams, Roger D. gossip and other more public modes of performance are explicitly recognized in that society. Principal ST. VINCENT. to Gossip. Gossip. Man 5 (2):290-301. argument is "that the function of gossip in spec 1981. Symbolic Landscapes on St. Vincent. Survey of Vincentian community's repertoire of expressive devices in ceremonies and festivities. Sharp Abrahams, Roger D. Symbolic Landscapes on St. Vincent. Canadian Journal of Anthropology/Revue distinction drawn between worlds of yard (related to household, respect-celebrating events, rules governing ST. VINCENT. Canadienne d'Anthropologie 2 (1):45-53. practices of privacy and family, etc.) and r 1968. Speech Mas' on Tobago. In Tire Detailed description of a Tobagonian version of a type of Carnival activity. Carnival bands compete through TRINIDAD AND Abrahams, Roger D. Speech Mas' on Tobago Shrinker to Dragster. Wilson Mathis Hudson, speechmaking, combining set-speeches with improvised ones, in which the speeches are alternately boasts TOBAGO. ed. Pp. 125-144. Austin: Encino Press. about the prowess of the speaker and invect After Africa: Extracts From British 1983. After Africa: Extracts From British Travel Accounts and Journals of the Travel Accounts and Journals of the Objective of editors was "to seek out in the oldest documents available the encounter of Africans and Abrahams, Roger D. Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Europeans in the New World, toward the discovery of what was and is distinctly Afro-American in the cultures CARIBBEAN. and John F. Szwed Nineteenth Centuries Concerning the Centuries Concerning the Slaves, their of the Americas." Documents are sectioned in Slaves, their Manners, and Customs Manners, and Customs in the British West in the British West Indies. Indies. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press. 1971. Sense and Nonsense in St. Vincent: Sense and Nonsense in St. Vincent: Analysis of speech behavior among Afro-American peasants in St. Vincent with a focus on that aspect of the Abrahams, Roger D. Speech Behavior and Decorum in a Caribbean Speech Behavior and Decorum in a speech taxonomy which deals with proper and improper behavior. Sets the framework for the description and ST. VINCENT. and Richard Bauman Community. American Ethnologist 73 Caribbean Community. examination of the Vincentian "tea meeting (3):762-772. 1993. Marriage and Concubinage Among the Sephardic Elite of Curaçao. In Women and Focusing on the role of women in the survival of the Sephardic Jewish community of Curaçao, author deals Abraham-van der Marriage and Concubinage Among Change in the Caribbean: A Pan-Caribbean with issues of marriage, kinship, religion and caste with reference to how the group maintained its economic CURAÇAO. Mark, Eva the Sephardic Elite of Curaçao Perspective. Janet H. Momsen, ed. Pp. 38-49. and political power despite risks and flu Kingston: Ian Randle. 2000. The Ashkenazi Jews of Curaçao, a Sephardi Jews have been resident and important in Curaçao since the 17th Century, Ashkenazi Jews from Abraham-van der The Ashkenazi Jews of Curaçao, a Trading Minority. New West Indian Bessarabia began arriving in the 1920s and 30s. These two quite distinct communities/congregations are CURAÇAO. Mark, Eva Trading Minority Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 74 (3- compared in context of a description of the develo 4):257-280. 1975. Confusion in the Caribbean: Some Notes on Differences Between Verbal Confusion in the Caribbean: Some Expression and Actual Behavior. In Rule and Utilizing data from Curaçao, author deals with aspects of "the disjunction between verbal expression and Abraham-van der CARIBBEAN. Notes on Differences Between Verbal Reality: Essays in Honor of André J.F. actual behavior, confessed values and real acts, what according to informants should be and what is, what Mark, Eva E. CURAÇAO. Expression and Actual Behavior Köbben. Peter Kloos and Klaas W. van der people say and what they do." This set of is Veen, eds. Pp. 1-16. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, Differences in the Upbringing of Boys 1970. Differences in the Upbringing of Boys Brief research note on survey of school children in Willemstad, Curaçao. Evidence suggests that difference in Abraham-van der and Girls in Curaçao, Correlated with and Girls in Curaçao, Correlated with the degree of neurotic instability of girls and boys is related to differential patterns of upbringing for the Curaçao. Mark, Eva E. Differences in the Degree of Neurotic Differences in the Degree of Neurotic sexes and to different social and Instability Instability.
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