Creolization as cultural creativity

Creolization as cultural creativity

by Baron, Robert A. Cara, Ana C.

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This volume explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolisation is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the post-colonial creole societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a universal process that can occur anywhere cultures come into contact. Drawing from the disciplines of folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, history, and material culture studies, …

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  • Full title :Creolization as cultural creativity / edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara.

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This volume explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creolisation is presented as a powerful marker of identity in the post-colonial creole societies of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the southwest Indian Ocean region, as well as a universal process that can occur anywhere cultures come into contact. Drawing from the disciplines of folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, literary studies, history, and material culture studies, essayists address theoretical dimensions of creolisation and present in-depth field studies.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 354 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781617031076, 1617031070, 1283245701, 9781283245708, 9786613245700, 6613245704
  • oclc:ocn754110440
  • LC Classification:GR111.F73
  • Dewey Decimal:398.209763

Table of Contents

Introduction : Creolization as cultural creativity / Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara -- Metaphors of incommensurability / John F. Szwed -- Monde Creóle : the cultural world of French Louisiana Creoles and the creolization of world cultures / Nick Spitzer -- Creolization, Nam, absent loved ones, watchers, and serious play with "toys" / Grey Gundaker -- Ritual piracy : or creolization with an attitude / Raquel Romberg -- Africa's Creole drum : the gumbe as vector and signifier of trans-African creolization / Kenneth Bilby -- Techniques of creolization / Lee Haring -- Creole talk : the poetics and politics of Argentine verbal art / Ana C. Cara -- Villes, poème : the postwar routes of Caribbean creolization / J. Michael Dash -- Amalgams and mosaics, syncretisms and reinterpretations : reading Herskovits and contemporary creolists for metaphors of creolization / Robert Baron -- About face : rethinking creolization / Roger D. Abrahams.

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Subjects

Argentina Caribbean Area Creoles Creoles -- Folklore. -- Argentina Créoles -- Folklore. -- Argentine Créoles -- Folklore. -- Caraïbes (Régio… Creoles -- Folklore. -- Caribbean Area Creoles -- Folklore. -- Louisiana Créoles -- Folklore. -- Louisiane Folklore Folklore -- Interprétation Folklore -- Performance Louisiana SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology

Writers

Baron, Robert A. Cara, Ana C.

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