1996
DOI: 10.2307/3034097
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Enduring Substances, Trying Theories: The Caribbean Region as Oikoumene

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“…L'accroissement des liens entre les différents centres, détenteurs des 4. La notion d'écoumène a été développée par Ulf Hannerz (1996 : Kroeber (1945), Hannerz (1996Hannerz ( , 1997 et Mintz (1996).…”
Section: Les éTudes Afro-américaines Et Les Théories Sur La Transnatiunclassified
“…L'accroissement des liens entre les différents centres, détenteurs des 4. La notion d'écoumène a été développée par Ulf Hannerz (1996 : Kroeber (1945), Hannerz (1996Hannerz ( , 1997 et Mintz (1996).…”
Section: Les éTudes Afro-américaines Et Les Théories Sur La Transnatiunclassified
“…Igor Kopytoff (1981) and Jean-Pierre Warnier (1985, 2014 reworked the term to describe the complex process by means of which a congeries of culturally distinct peoples nevertheless could form an interdependent social whole in the Grassfields of Cameroon. Sidney Mintz (1996), building on Kopytoff (1981) and Kroeber (1946), used the term in this reconstructed sense to refer to the confluence of peoples in the West Indies as a result of the upheavals of the slave trade. 5 Like the West Indies, the Ottoman Empire was always too plural to be a 'culture area', and yet whatever their cultural background might have been, neighbors from different millets in the villages, towns, and cities of the empire were made much more alike than they were different from one another.…”
Section: Space Without Places Time Without Duration: Temporalities Omentioning
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“…A afirmação supracitada de Kwon -ancorada em Marx, Simmel, Bohannan e Bloch e Parry -baseia-se numa leitura dos processos de monetização como índices da modernização de economias "tradicionais", abrindo espaço para liberdade pessoal, ao custo do enfraquecimento de distinções sociais convencionais. Mas os saamaka, como o restante do Caribe pós-colombiano, sempre foram, de certa forma, "modernos" (Mintz 1996). Ademais, em Saamaka, jamais ouvi qualquer ligação entre dinheiro e liberdade -ideal fundamental, mas que entra por outras vias no discurso businenge, vinculadas às suas histórias de resistência à escravidão.…”
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