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1. Intangible Cultural Heritage: safeguarding embodied Creole cultures -- 2. Towards Safeguarding Creole Intangible Cultural Heritage: The 2003 UNESCO Convention -- 3 The Rejuvenation of Arts and Culture through Folklore -- 4. Valorisation of the Intangible Creole Heritage in Mauritius: A Case Study -- 5. The Spirit of Koudmen: The Genesis of Identity, Community and Cooperation in Saint Lucian Society -- 6. Embodying Creole Heritage: The Dominican Bélé -- 7. Entangled Threads: Creolisation of Plants and Landscape -- 8. Tourism Development in Creole Spaces: A Saint Lucian, island perspective -- 9. Advancing a Creole Centre of Excellence Framework -- 10. Conclusions: Looking Ahead to the 'After Acts'.

Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the

"Explores the uncalculated and incalculable elements in historical re-enactment--unexpected emotions, unplanned developments--and locates them in countries where settlers were trying to establish national identities derived from metropolitan cultures inevitably affected by the land itself and the people who had been there before them"--Provided by publisher

Despite high degrees of cultural and ethnic diversity as well as prevailing political instability, Guinea-Bissau's population has developed a strong sense of national belonging. By examining both contemporary and historical perspectives, A Creole Nation explores how creole identity, culture, and political leaders have influenced postcolonial nation-building processes in Guinea-Bissau, and the ways in which the phenomenon of cultural creolization results in the emergence of new identities

Becoming Creole explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and it shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization that create blackness, brownness, and whiteness. Taking the reader into the lived experience of Afro-Caribbean people who call the watery lowlands of Belize home, Melissa A. Johnson traces Belizean Creole peoples' relationships with the plants, animals, water, and soils around them, and analyzes how these relationships intersect with transnational racial assemblages. She provides a sustained analysis of how processes of racialization are always present in the entanglements between people and the non-human worlds in which they live. -- Provided by publisher

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 African Choices in the Revolutionary South -- 2 The Counter-Revolution in Saint Domingue -- 3 Maroons, Loyalist Intrigues, and Ephemeral States -- 4 Black Militiamen and African Rebels in Havana -- 5 Black Seminoles: A Nation Besieged -- 6 Atlantic Creoles in Matanzas, Cuba -- Epilogue: Failed Promises of the Atlantic Revolutions -- Appendix 1: Chronology -- Appendix 2: Prince 's Black Company -- Appendix 3: Registry of Negro Prisoners -- Notes -- Index

In 2004, a conference was held at King's College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed 'Portuguese' societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer's own interest in the social history of Portugal's overseas empire. Although the conference papers were published by Bristol University, this volume is long out of print and the outstanding quality of many of the contributions has made it necessary for this collection to be republished. Portuguese overseas expansion over a period of five centuries led to the formation of many mixed or creole communities which drew culturally not only on Portugal, but also on indigenous societies. This cross-cultural interaction gave rise to a creole 'Portuguese' identity that in many cases outlasted the formal empire itself. Reflecting upon the main tenets of Boxer's work, this collection provides a broad geographical perspective upon areas of Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa. The chapters cover a wide range of social strata, including plantation slave and maroon communities, private settler-traders and pirates, indigenous trade-diasporas, and Luso-African, Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian groups, as well as the formation of Creole elites against the background of shifting racial, gender, ethnic, linguistic and religious boundaries. As such, this collection represents an exercise in 'subaltern' history which shows that the informal social relations were often more important in the long term than the formal structures of empire

I. Introducing Jewishness, creolization and the colonial domain -- II. A colonial Jewish community in the making -- III. Making a living in the colony -- IV. Colonial configurations and diasporic connections -- V. Echoes of the other -- VI. Spaces of death, mirror of the living -- VII. New World identifications, Old World sensibilities -- VIII. Black, white, Jewish? -- IX. Conclusion.

1. The Creole Republic: Past and Present -- 2. Sources, Methods, Theory -- 3. Tobago: Creole Society's Doppelganger -- 4. Birth of a Creole Nation: 1783-1961 -- 5. The Independence Decade -- 6. 1970 – 1980: Black Power recedes, Indian Power surges -- 7. The 1980s – Money, Malaise, Modernity -- 8. Summing up the PNM Generation -- 9. A Decade of Revolution: 1986, 1990, 1995 -- 10. The Creole Century Closes – 1996-2000 -- 11. History Pauses: 2001-2002 -- 12. Rage, Revanchism, Revenge -- 13. Conclusion: The End of a Decade and an Era.

By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and methods from each other, as they more frequently did in the 1960s and 1970s, when both subfields, in their modern forms at least, were getting started. The volume addresses fundamental sociolinguistic topics such as social class, style, fieldwork, speech community, sociolinguistic competence and language attitudes with data from Guyanese and other Caribbean creoles. Recurrent concepts are also considered including language versatility, variation and change, vernacular use, school success and criminal justice in African America and the Caribbean, using models, case studies and methodologies from sociolinguistics. Theoretical and applied scholars, students apprehensive about sociolinguistic fieldwork, and those considering dynamic methods like implicational scaling about which little is written in linguistics textbooks, will find this volume invaluable. Includes a Foreword by Gillian Sankoff

During the colonial period in Guyana, the country's coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana's new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly at the nation's politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the present, Jackson explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Through government documents, in

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Between Dream and Reality in Franco-America -- 2. Cultural Institutions and French Renaissance in America -- 3. Women's Social Clubs and the Transmission of Culture -- 4. Franco-American Cultures in a New World Perspective -- 5. Ethnic Identity and the Franco-American Press -- 6. Unmasking the Creole Cowboy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part one: Groundings -- Chapter 1 Elements -- Chapter 2 Social Histories: The Weight of France in Martinique -- Part two: Frameworks -- Chapter 3 Cultural Economies: Relating Social Values to Economic Theory in Martinique -- Chapter 4 Afro-Caribbean Identities: Postcolonial Tensions and Martinique's Creole Débrouillard -- Part three: Practices -- Chapter 5 Adaptations of Cunning: The Changing Forms of Débrouillardism -- Chapter 6 Opportunism by Class: The Profit and Status of Undeclared Work -- Chapter 7 Women, Men, and Economic Practice: Different Routes to Autonomy and Status -- Epilogue Imagining the Future of Creole Economics -- Notes -- Glossary -- References Cited -- Index