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Recitation #1: - Why Anthro. Why the Caribbean Recitation #1: - Why Anthro? Why the Caribbean? - Caribbean Race Population - Sugar & Taste TextS: Trouillot’s “The Caribbean Region” Hoetink’s “Race and Color in the Caribbean” Cromwell’s “More than slaves” Prof. L. Kaifa Roland The Caribbean in Post-Colonial Perspective Anth 1115

(Trouillot; Day 2 Notes) Why Anthropology? (Trouillot; Day 2 Notes) Objective Understanding & Explaining Humankind Describe, Analyze & Explain different cultures (past, present, geographically dispersed) Kinds of anthro - Physical/Biological - Archaeological - Linguistic - Socio-cultural Concerned with (sub/conscious) behaviors & actions Interested in the question: How have groups adapted and given meaning to their lives?

What is Culture? Shared beliefs/understandings/practices that are learned

Background to the Discipline Origins in European discovery Anthro and colonial legacy Obsessed with being a Natural science?

Why post-colonial approach? Considers legacy of colonial rule Role in national/cultural identity

Why the Caribbean? Problematic for essentialist & essentializing anthropology Exemplifies globalization historically and today Colonial histories Creolization and local issues Continuing issues of meanings of mobility

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/DISCUSSION

What did Columbus “Discover”? (Hoetink/Cromwell; Day 3 Notes) “Indians” Ciboney oldest Taino-Arawak most numerous Carib (aka Kalinago) most recent arrival military threat Path to Spn Domination Acculturation/ Assimilation Military technology Disease

Gold on the Mainlands (Hoetink; Day 3 Notes) Spanish attention to North and South America Period of creole identity formation in Caribbean Enter Holland, England, and France

Pirates and other the Caribbean “Others” (Cromwell; Day 3 Notes) Soldiers Smugglers/Pirates Europe’s ethnic minorities Jews Irish Scots Free(d) people of color Native Americans Maroons (runaways)

Dutch West India Company Mass importation of enslaved Africans Shift to plantation slavery Shift to chattel slavery Underwater monument to lives lost to slavery off coast Grenada

Race under construction Meanings assigned to skin color Whites Browns/Coloreds/Mulatos Blacks/Slaves

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/DISCUSSION

Gimme some Sugar!(Day 4 Notes) Natural/Biological affinity for sweetness Sweetness in nature From Flavor to “Taste”

Sugar requires Labor

Supply and Demand (supply driven) Pre-1650s low global supply Dutch technology and growing slave labor Small-scale spread to working class by mid-1700s

Shift to High Supply Europe and global colonization Domestic market + colonial market

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/DISCUSSION