Across the Dark Water (Warwick University Caribbean Studies)
Contributors: David Dabydeen (Editor); Brinsley Samaroo (Editor)
Publisher: Macmillan Caribbean
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780333535080
Subjects: Ethnography; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Slavery & emancipation; ASIA; Africa; Caribbean Sea
Description: "Useful collection of essays is derived primarily from 1988 conference on East Indians in the Caribbean. Contributors are not mainly ethnographers; however, their subject matter (race relations, religious and cultural practices, etc.), and their manner of dealing with it, are essentially anthropological. Includes 10 chapters dealing with Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana, and Suriname"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.