The Utilization of Arable Land in an Eastern Caribbean Valley

Rubenstein, Hymie

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“…Others have discussed how family land symbolically provides a sense of security and freedom among rural peoples, indeed important cultural values of resistance against the history of plantation production (Besson 1987;Clarke 1966: 64-68;Edwards 1961;Mintz 1974Mintz , 1977Rubenstein 1975), in addition to the new forms of adaptation to capitalist disciplining of urban labor practices in the Caribbean (Freeman 2000;Safa 1995;Yelvington 1995). Similarly, huckstering represents a grab at sovereignty in a world haunted by the domination of capitalist exchange.…”

Section: Huckstering's Legacy: the Social Values Of Autonomy Creativmentioning

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How a Huckster Becomes a Custodian of Market Morality: Traditions of Flexibility in Exchange in Dominica

Mantz

2007

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Since 1995, Dominica has endured a massive economic downturn following a series of World Trade Organization decisions that have devastated the banana industry, its major export earner. Yet the trade decisions have not been the subject of much anxiety or debate. At the same time, their second largest contributors to foreign exchange earnings (hucksters) are seldom the subject of public discussion. I suggest in this article that these omissions have to do with the manner in which flexibility is culturally conceptualized. Rather than a recent adaptation to the physiopsychological disciplining of a post-Fordian or "globalized" economy, I argue that in Dominica, flexibility is historically constituted through a much longer engagement with capitalism in the formation of the Caribbean as a cultural area over the last five centuries. The entrepreneurial savvy found among hucksters is autochthonous to Dominica's trade culture.A Dominica National Gender Symposium held on 19 October 2000 conspicuously omitted any discussion of the extra-household economic activities of women. With only one intervention by a prominent Dominican anthropologist, the symposium stubbornly ignored the important role that the small-scale predominately female traders in agricultural produce (known locally as "hucksters") have played economically and socially for 250 years. It should be mentioned that this is a particularly odd omission. At the time of that panel, the trade routes over which hucksters are the principal exporters accounted for the second largest contribution to export earnings. As I show in this article, such an exclusion is illustrative of long-established Dominican cultural attitudes about the ordinary nature of flexibility in exchange practice, as well as the central role hucksters have played therein.Dominica's primary export earning industry is worth mentioning as well, because it is also evidentiary of a general cultural attitude among Dominicans to the ordinary nature of flexibility and economic struggle, processes which reflect a culture of flexibility for which the

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confidence: 98%

How a Huckster Becomes a Custodian of Market Morality: Traditions of Flexibility in Exchange in Dominica

Mantz

2007

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“…Las investigaciones en el Caribe anglófono y Haití sobre sistemas consuetudinarios de herencia y tenencia de la tierra y derechos grupales proporcionan importantes pistas para explorar en América Latina, donde en muchos sectores la costumbre suele tener un peso mucho mayor que el código legal (Besson, 1987;Clarke, 1970: 40-56;Greenfield, 1960;Larose, 1975;Otterbein, 1964;Rubenstein, 1976;1987: 76-82). La importante tendencia a establecer la residencia en el rumbo del padre del hombre en Haití contrasta con lo descripto en las islas anglófonas (ver Bastien, 1985: 101, 105;Herskovits, 1937: 123) y aún queda pendiente una explicación.…”

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Faire l’histoire des Amériques contemporaines : sources et méthodes d’une décolonisation de l’histoire

Michel¹

2020

Encyclopédie Des Historiographies : Afriques, Amériques, Asies

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Au vu de son interaction avec l’Europe et l’Amérique du Nord, cerner la spécificité d’une historiographie latino‑américaine contemporaine peut sembler un exercice compliqué. Pourtant, depuis les années 1970, l’Amérique latine a été un terrain très investi par les enjeux de renouvellement historiographiques pour une histoire des dominés et qui, plus généralement, mettent en lumière les acteurs « invisibilisés » d’une histoire encore trop coloniale. Ce changement de paradigme historiographique tient principalement à la construction de nouvelles sources, et débouche sur la caractérisation d’objets historiques propres à la région comme la démocratisation ethnique, la violence politique ou la décolonisation de la société.

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Do Property Rights Matter for Conservation? Family Land, Forests and Trees in Saint Lucia, West Indies

Walters

2012

Hum Ecol

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The Utilization of Arable Land in an Eastern Caribbean Valley

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

How a Huckster Becomes a Custodian of Market Morality: Traditions of Flexibility in Exchange in Dominica

How a Huckster Becomes a Custodian of Market Morality: Traditions of Flexibility in Exchange in Dominica

Faire l’histoire des Amériques contemporaines : sources et méthodes d’une décolonisation de l’histoire

Do Property Rights Matter for Conservation? Family Land, Forests and Trees in Saint Lucia, West Indies

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