Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag
What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off the books in Martinique today.
Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered by the “essential tensions” of maintaining French and Creole identities, the practice of creole economics provides both assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned and French.
This powerful ethnographic study shows how local economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and cultural influences.
Author: Katherine E. Browne
Paperback: 291 pages
Company: University of Texas Press (2004-11-01)
ISBN: 0292705816
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Spectre (Zoe Martinique, Book 2)
Next in the series thats part paranormal whodunit, part urban fantasy (Publishers Weekly) by the author of Wraith.
Zoë Martinique has the extraordinary ability to travel outside her body at will. When she is drawn into an investigation of a series of bizarre murders, in which the victims are missing body parts, Zoë hopes to help her boyfriend, Atlanta homicide detective Daniel Frasier, stop the killer one shes sure is from the darkest levels of the astral planewithout letting him find out about her special abilities.
Then danger strikes close to home when Zoës mother disappears, and Zoë must use all the powers at her command to save hereven though Zoë knows that, in doing so, she may make herself into something no longer entirely human.
Author: Phaedra Weldon
Paperback: 368 pages
Company: Ace Trade (2008-06-03)
ISBN: 044101593X
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The Faithful Friend
On the lush tropical island of Martinique live Clement and Hippolyte, two inseparable friends. When Clement falls in love with the beautiful Pauline, Hippolyte agrees to join his best friend on his journey to propose marriage. But when Pauline accepts Clement’s proposal, it enrages her uncle Monsieur Zabocat — reputed to be a quimboiseur, a wizard. To prevent the wedding, the old wizard lures Hippolyte into a deadly trap, forcing him to choose between his friend’s safety and his own.
Robert D. San Souci and Brian Pinkney again combine their talents in this beautiful retelling of a traditional tale from the French West Indies. The result is an extraordinary story of romance, intrigue, and incomparable courage in which the truest of friends remain faithful to the very end.
Author: Robert D. San Souci
Paperback: 40 pages
Company: Aladdin (1999-01-01)
ISBN: 0689824580
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A Cruising Guide To The Windward Islands: Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Carriacou, Grenada, Barbados
With 80 sketch charts this is the most comprehensive guide covering The Windward Islands. The Windward Islands Guide contains GPS waypoints, approaches and routes, anchorages, dive sites, an extensive appendix, photos and a bibliography. As with all of Steve’s guides it contains sections on history, marina services, and much more useful info.
Author: Stephen J. Pavlidis
Spiral-bound: 266 pages
Company: Seaworthy Publications Inc. (2005-06-01) (2005-06-01)
ISBN: 1892399180
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A-Z of Grenada Heritage (Macmillian Caribbean a-Z)
Recent tragic political events have propelled the tiny Caribbean islands of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique into the affairs of Superpowers. Within the last two decades more books have been written on Grenada than in its entire history. Far more than just being an account of the political history of the island, A-Z of Grenada provides a fascinating examination of the island, incorporating the varied and frequently ignored aspects of the culture, history, and natural environment of the island.
Author: John Angus Martin
Paperback: 283 pages
Company: MacMillan Caribbean (2007-10-11)
ISBN: 0333792521
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Wraith (Zoe Martinique, Book 1)
First in an excitingly different and new paranormal series.
Zo Martinique has turned her unusual ability into a career. When she’s traveling, she can’t be seen which makes her an ideal professional snoop. Industrial espionage, surveillance, whatever. But one night things get out of hand while she’s outof- body. She witnesses a murder and a soul stealing, and discovers she has unwelcome company: Trench- Coat, a ghostly killer who can see and hurt her.
Teaming up with a blue-eyed police detective, she tries to solve the case and improve her love life. She also enlists the support of her psychic mother and the ghostly couple who haunt her house. And with murderers, kidnappers, and a desperate ex-porn star involved, Zo needs all the help she can get.
Author: Phaedra Weldon
Paperback: 384 pages Bargain Price
Company: Ace Trade (2007-06-05)
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