An Earth-Colored Sea
Subtitle: "Race", Culture, and the Politics of Identity in the Postcolonial Portuguese-Speaking World (New Directions in Anthropology)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781571816078
Subjects: Cultural studies; Sociology, Social Studies; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Portugal; Spain; Anthropology - Cultural; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Blacks; Brazil; Ethnicity; Foreign countries; History; Portuguese; Portuguese-speaking countries; Race identity
Description: "Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and postcolonialism. The structure of the book reflects a trajectory of research, starting with a case study in Trinidad, followed by another one in Brazil, and ending with yet another one in Portugal. The three ethnographic studies are intertwined with essays of a more theoretical nature. The non-monographic, composite - or hybrid - nature of this work may be in itself an indication of the need for transnational and historically grounded research when dealing with issues of representations of identity that were constructed during colonial times and that are today reconfigured in the ideological struggles over cultural meanings."--Jacket