Transatlantic Caribbean: Dialogues of People, Practices, Ideas

by Ingrid Kummels (Editor), Claudia Rauhut (Editor), Stefan Rinke (Editor), Birte Timm (Editor)

Overview

»Transatlantic Caribbean« widens the scope of research on the Caribbean by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa and by investigating long-term exchanges of people, practices and ideas. Based on innovative approaches and rich empirical research from anthropology, history and literary studies the contributions discuss border crossings, south-south relations and diasporas in the areas of popular culture, religion, historical memory as well as national and transnational social and political movements. These perspectives enrich the theoretical debates on transatlantic dialogues and the Black Atlantic and emphasize the Caribbean's central place in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783837626070
Publication date:	02/15/2015
Series:	Global Studies
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Ingrid Kummels (Prof.) teaches anthropology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on media and visual anthropology in transnational contexts between the USA, Mexico, the Caribbean and Peru.
Claudia Rauhut (PhD) teaches anthropology at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Stefan Rinke (Prof.) teaches history at the Institute for Latin American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Birte Timm (PhD) is a Marie Curie fellow of the Gerda-Henkel-Foundation, at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies, Mona, in Jamaica.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
From "Survival" to "Dialogue": Analytic Tropes in the Study of African-Diaspora Cultural History 33
On Talking Past Each Other, Productively: Anthropology and the Black Atlantic, Twenty Years On 57
Trans-Atlantic Educational Crossroads: Experiences of Mozambican Students in Cuba 77
Turning Back to the Turning Point: The Day of Guanahani in 1492 in Global Perspective 97
Theorizing Dominican Modernity: The Crossroads of "Revolution" on Hispaniola 109
Migration Flows and the Politics of Exclusion in the French Antilles 121
Staging the Caribbean: Dialogues on Diasporic Antillean Music and Dance in Paris during the Jazz Age 141
Rasta in Revolution: The Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba 165
A Transatlantic Restoration of Religion: On the Re-construction of Yoruba and Lúkúmí in Cuban Santería 181
Petrodollar, Bolivarianism, and the Re-Yorubanization of Santería in Chávez's Socialist Venezuela 201
CaribBerlin: Multiple Paths in the Religious Life of a German Oricha Priest 225
Processes of Cultural Transfer in 19th-Century Literature: The Caribbean within the Context of the Cultural Radiance of Europe, exemplified by France and Spain (1789-1886) 239
Scattered Seeds: Transnational Origins of the Decolonization Movement in Jamaica 253
Transient Histories: Memory and Movements Within the 19th Century Caribbean 273
Contributors 291