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Fieldwork Identities in the Caribbean
Erin B. Taylor |
| What is it really like to do fieldwork?
Answers to this question are as diverse as the researchers and the field sites they choose. Anthropologists no longer fit the stereotype of white Westerners going to exotic places to study people very different from themselves. Rather, anthropologists now come from a variety of backgrounds, and their identities are complicated, even to them.
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"This book emerged from a simple question posed to me by a graduate student in anthropology. She asked me,... Read excerpt |
12/15/2009, Caribbean Studies Press. Catalog Number: CSP6007, 258pp, Paperback
ISBN 978-1-58432-600-7 |
$27.50 |
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The Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar
Creating, Imagining, Theorizing
Keshia N. Abraham with a Preface by Carole Boyce Davies |
| Caribbean / African Diaspora Series |
| “What does it mean to be a Caribbean woman writer? Shall I write about being from the Caribbean or about being a woman?...And in what ways am I to differentiate being a writer from being a scholar? Should any such differentiation be made?”
The first volume in The Caribbean / African Diaspora Series, this collection of incisive and provocative essays... More |
September, 2009, Caribbean Studies Press, 462pp, Includes color illustrations, softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-565-9 |
$40.00 |
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Education, Assimilation, and Caribbean Identity
The Literary Journey of the French Caribbean
Marie Leticee, Ph.D. |
| A far-reaching and critical study of the role of education in shaping Caribbean identity. Perceptive studies of the literature and scholarship of French Caribbean writers are framed in the context of the foreign educational curriculum imposed on the people of these islands. Original research and literature analysis are combined in this syncretic approach to the development of the Caribbean... More |
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"Accepting assimilation into French culture meant that they could no longer define themselves as Antilleans. They were now defined by the other as a sub-group....Hence.... Read excerpt |
June, 2009, Caribbean Studies Press, 228pp, Softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-554-3 |
$24.50 |
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English-Portuguese / Portuguese Word-to-Word Dictionary
Fequiere Vilsaint and Louise Canuto |
| A practical reference to help both English and Portuguese learners of the other language improve their language skills and clarify issues of orthography. |
2007, Educa Vision, Inc., 321pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 1-58432-417-1 |
$18.50 |
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Florida Phrasebook
English-Spanish-Haitian Creole-Portuguese
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| A clear and easy-to-use guide to quick and basic communication in the four languages most spoken in multilingual and multicultural Florida. Useful for business and personal life, this reference thematically covers useful forms of etiquette, going places, giving information about yourself, shopping, eating, and other essential topics. The phrasebook also includes a useful 5,000 word vocabulary in each... More |
2009, Educa Vision, Inc., 410pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 9781584322382 |
$27.50 |
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English-Spanish / Spanish-English Word-to-Word Dictionary
Martha Arturo Sánchez, Fequiere Vilsaint, and Orlando Figueredo |
| This is a practical reference to help English and Spanish learners of the other language improve their language skills and clarify issues of orthography. The dictionary contains 27,000 word entries, many with multiple meanings, chosen by word frequency. |
2008, Educa Vision, Inc., 508pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 9781584324843 |
$24.50 |
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English-French / French-English Word-to-Word Dictionary
Fequiere Vilsaint and France Robert-Dubois |
| This English/French dictionary is a practical reference to help both French and English learners of the other language improve their language skills and clarify issues of orthography. The dictionary contains 27,000 word entries, many with multiple meanings, based on word frequency. |
2005, Educa Vision, Inc., 448pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 1584324805 |
$24.50 |
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Who's Who in the Haitian Diaspora
Fequiere Vilsaint and Maude Heurtelou |
| This book is a comprehensive reference containing the biographies of outstanding men and women engaged in a wide range of professions and located outside of Haiti. Each biography details the individual's accomplishment, often accompanied by a photograph. |
2008, Educa Vision, Inc., 252pp, b & w photos, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 1584324910 |
$34.50 |
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Caribbean Landscapes
An Interpretive Atlas
Timothy S. Brothers, Jeffrey S. Wilson and Owen P. Dwyer |
| A major new reference, this full-color work is a selective introduction to the diversity of Caribbean landscapes, showing underlying patterns without overlooking the uniqueness of individual places. Combining scholarship and expertise in remote-sensing technologies, cartography, photography, and fieldwork, this team of geographers from the University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis presents a taxonomy of Caribbean environments. Not an atlas in... More |
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From the Journal of Latin American Geography---
"It is the rare book that combines artistic images with informative text, but 'Caribbean Landscapes" accomplishes just that. The... Read review |
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From the Preface: The Geographical Perspective on the Caribbean
Our purpose is not merely to describe the landscapes shown here but to interpret them: set them... Read excerpt |
August, 2008, Caribbean Studies Press. Catalog Number: CSP4591, 249pp, full color throughout, twin loop lay-flat
ISBN 978-1-58432-459-1 |
$59.00 |
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Immigration and Politics in the Caribbean
Japanese and Other Immigrants in the Dominican Republic
Valentina Peguero |
| A revealing study of 20th century immigration and racial politics in the Dominican Republic.
The little-known settlements of Japanese immigrants in the Dominican Republic are the basis for this richly informed history of 20th century migration to the Caribbean and Latin America. Yet the connection of Japan to the region is strong, with a considerable volume of trade and approximately 1.5... More |
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"A study of one of the more obscure communities in the multicultural Caribbean, the Japanese who immigrated to the Dominican Republic in the 1950s, Peguero... Read review |
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"From Whie to Non-Black: A Change in Tone in Immigration Guidelines
Structured around contradictory notions of inclusion and exclusion in order to attract the flow of... Read excerpt |
July, 2008, Caribbean Studies Press, 321pp, with black and white photos, softcover
ISBN 978-1-58432-482-9 |
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