1st Edition

Caye Caulker Economic Success In A Belizean Fishing Village

By Anne Sutherland Copyright 1987
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1986. In the last decade, the island of Caye Caulker was transformed from a subsistence fishing village into an affluent enclave within a poor Caribbean country. This ethnographic study of the island recounts the economic success story of Caye Caulker, attributing the island's relative prosperity to several key features: the reorganization of the lobster fishing industry into... Read more
Preface -- Introduction -- Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism: A Gramscian Approach -- The Colonial State and Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism -- Colonial Hindu Politics: Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism -- Colonial Muslim Politics: Democracy, Nationalism, and Communalism -- Conclusion

Biography

Anne Sutherland is associate professor of anthropology at Macalester College.