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Creole Economics

Katherine E. Browne
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      What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off the books in Martinique today.Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered by the "essential tensions" of maintaining French and Creole identities, the practice of creole economics provides both assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned and French.This powerful ethnographic study shows how local economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and cultural influences.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine E. Browne EAN: 9780292705814 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Texas Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-11-01 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Caribbean islands, Economic history, History of the Americas

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      Katherine E. Browne is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado State University and is the recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s 2018 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology.
      What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off the books in Martinique today.Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered by the "essential tensions" of maintaining French and Creole identities, the practice of creole economics provides both assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned and French.This powerful ethnographic study shows how local economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and cultural influences.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine E. Browne EAN: 9780292705814 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Texas Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-11-01 CITY: GENRE: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Caribbean islands, Economic history, History of the Americas

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      Katherine E. Browne is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Colorado State University and is the recipient of the American Anthropological Association’s 2018 Franz Boas Award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology.

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