Creolization History, Ethnography, Theory

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ISBN: 9781598742787

ISBN-10: 1598742787

ISBN-13: 9781598742787

Edition: 2007

Authors: Charles C. Stewart

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Social scientists have used the term "Creolization" to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new cultures across the globe. However, the term has been under-theorized and tends to be used as a simple synonym for "mixture" or "hybridity." In this volume, by contrast, renowned scholars give the term historical and theoretical specificity by examining the very different domains and circumstances in which the process takes place. Elucidating the concept in this way not only uncovers a remarkable history, it also re-opens the term for new theoretical use. It illuminates an ill-understood idea, explores how the term has operated and signified in different disciplines, times, and places, and…

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List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/31/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English




Creolization : history, ethnography, theory




Creole colonial Spanish America




Creoles in British America : from denial to acceptance




The "C-word" again : from colonial to postcolonial semantics




Creole linguistics from its beginnings, through Schuchardt : to the present day




From miscegenation to Creole identity : Portuguese colonialism, Brazil, Cape Verde




Indian-oceanic creolizations : processes and practices of creolization on Reunion Island




Creolization in anthropological theory and in Mauritius




Is there a model in the muddle? : "creolization" in African Americanist history and anthropology




Adapting to inequality : negotiating Japanese identity in contexts of return




The Creolite movement : paradoxes of a French Caribbean orthodoxy




Creolization moments