Creole Economics : : Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag / / Katherine E. Browne.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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