The Caribbean World

Introduction: Making and Unmaking Caribbean Worlds - Olívia M. Gomes da Cunha, Ryan Cecil Jobson and Stephan Palmié 

Section I: Odd States, Ordinary Sovereignty

1. Repeating Crisis in Haiti - Greg Beckett

2. Carceral Mobilities: Detention, Deportation, Diaspora and the Caribbean - Aisha Khan

3. Justice in a Vigilante State: Extra-Judicial Killings and Accountability in Jamaica - Eilat Maoz

4. The Court, the Crown, and the Caribbean: Shaping Non-Sovereignties through the Law - Lee Cabatingan

5. Cuban Solidarity Humanitarianism: Global Health(Care) as Political Praxis - P. Sean Brotherton

6. Citizenship, Gender and Migration in the Southern Caribbean - Tivia Collins

7. When your hand is inside the tiger’s mouth, pat his back:’ Diplomacy and the Institutionalization of Reparations Work in the Anglophone Caribbean - Anna Schirrer

Section II: Making Relations, Making Kin

8. Substantial Relations: Constructing Ties that Bind Across the Caribbean - Jennifer Cearns

9. Gendered Labor and Petrocapitalism in the Dutch Caribbean, 1920s-50s - Chelsey Schields

10. Family and Indentured Workers in Suriname, 1873-1939 - Rosemarijn Hoefte

11. Personhood beyond the Plantation: Opacity and Self-Making - Stuart Strange

12. Father Song - Adom Philomene Heron

13. Queer Placemaking and Geographies of Lesbian and Trans Masculine Community in Trinidad and Tobago - Nikoli Attai

Section III: Beyond Religion, beyond the Secular

14. Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Religion in the Caribbean - Alexander Rocklin

15. Christian Funerals as Sites of Afro-Caribbean Social Negotiation - Claudia Fioretti Bongianino

16. Marks of Devotion: Indo-Caribbean Godnas (Tattoos), Caste Identities, and Hindu Reformism in Contests for Religious Leadership - Sinah Theres Kloss

17. The Abakuá Society: From Repression to Civic Inclusion - Ramón Torres Zayas

18. The Nyabinghi Archipelago: Rastafari’s Sacred Music in the Greater Caribbean - Kenneth Bilby

19. ’Selassie is the Chapel’: Forging New Ethiopianism in the Caribbean - Jahlani Niaah

Section IV: Cultivating Places, Creating Livelihoods

20. Caribbean Ecologies and Landscape Transformations in Cuba: From Plantations to the Revaluation of Wetlands in the Anthropocene - Reinaldo Funes Monzote

21. In and out of the Plots, Grounds, Yards and Gardens in the Black Atlantic Plantationocene - Catherine Benoit

22. Social Housing and the Making of the ‘Urban’ in French Guinana - Clémence Leobal

23. The Struggle for the Cuban Meal - Hanna Garth

24. Tourism in the ‘Islands in the Sun’ - Carla Guerrón Montero

Section V: Moving Categories, Mobile Identifications

25. From Linguistic Variation to Styling in Caribbean Communities - Bettina Migge

26. Maroons in Guyane - Richard Price and Sally Price

27. ’…Si realmente son Dominicanos’: Race and National Belonging in the Campaign for the Reintegration of Dominicans to the Patria - Sabine F. Cadeau

Epilogue

28. Rebel Islands: Recovering Caribbean Agency - Don Robotham

Biography

Olívia M. Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Ryan Cecil Jobson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA

Stephan Palmié is Norman & Edna Freehling Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, USA