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Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties.
Burnard, Trevor
core   +1 more source

Parenting While Black: Ethnic‐Racial Socialization Among Netherlands‐Based Caribbean and West‐African Heritage Mothers

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study explores how and why West African and Caribbean heritage mothers in the Netherlands engage in ethnic‐racial socialization. Background West African and Caribbean communities have long histories in the Netherlands. Even though parents from these communities are tasked with helping children navigate mainstream Dutch culture ...
Daudi van Veen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A case study of language shift in progress in Port Limon, Costa Rica

open access: yesRevista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015
Este trabajo presenta los resultados de la investigación llevada a cabo entre la población hablante de inglés criollo de Puerto Limón, Costa Rica. La comunidad criolla de Limón está en el proceso de cambiar su criollo de base inglesa por el español ...
Marva Spence Sharpe
doaj   +1 more source

« Créoles », « Français », créolisation : identités et langues du père Labat à Thérèse Bentzon

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes, 2023
From the travel literature of the modern era describing the first French colonial societies to the quivering of West Indian literature in the 19th century, the use of the term ‘creole’ reveals the evolution of the discourse on identities and languages ...
Anna Forestier
doaj   +1 more source

Being Ourselves: Immigrant Culture and Self-Identification Among Young Haitians in Montréal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Since the early 1960s, large numbers of Haitians have emigrated from their native island nation. Changes in federal immigration legislation in the 1970s in both the United States and Canada enabled immigrants of colour a facilitated entry into the two ...
Pégram, Scooter
core   +1 more source

Information systems and digitization of traditional knowledge: Trends in cultural heritage and memory institutions and the WIPO Genetic Resources Treaty*

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in development, especially in relation to marginalized populations, has been the focus of many related disciplinary categories within the broader ecosystem of information sciences.
Chidi Oguamanam
wiley   +1 more source

O conceito de “Língua Geral do Brasil” revisitado à luz da linguística de contato

open access: yesJournal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019
In this study, we aim to: (i) revisit the various 'concepts' of Brazilian Língua Geral (LG) from current studies relating with language contact; (ii) present new reflections on the sociohistorical conditions involving this type of language; (iii) to ...
Márcia Santos Duarte de Oliveira   +2 more
doaj  

Translating exile. Translating the Native Country: Notes on an Experience

open access: yesLiteratura: Teoría, Historia, Crítica, 2017
The translation into foreign languages of the philological and cultural specificities, cross-breedings, migrations, and “impurities” of Caribbean literature is a challenge.
Laura Ruiz Montes
doaj   +1 more source

Ecological and Sociodemographic Determinants of House Infestation by Triatoma infestans in Indigenous Communities of the Argentine Chaco [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Gran Chaco ecoregion, a hotspot for Chagas and other neglected tropical diseases, is home to >20 indigenous peoples. Our objective was to identify the main ecological and sociodemographic determinants of house infestation and abundance of Triatoma ...
Cardinal, Marta Victoria   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Enduring and the horizon of repair: French Caribbean post‐stroke rehabilitation amid health inequity

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic research with patients and therapists in post‐stroke rehabilitation, this article explores how Guadeloupeans strive to exist on their own terms amid postcolonial health inequities, forms of marginalization and institutional disrepair.
Raphaëlle Melissa Rabanes
wiley   +1 more source

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