Ritual Piracy or Creolization with an Attitude
Romberg R (2008)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2008
Journal
Original Authors: Raquel Romberg
Book Volume: 79
Pages Range: 175-218
Issue: 3-4
DOI: 10.1163/13822373-90002505
Abstract
Most of the scholarship in anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism concurs in drawing on creolization as one of the signifiers to speak broadly of cultural transformation.1 But the nature of this transformation, its agents, motives, and products are by no means agreed upon. What historians, socio-cultural anthropologists, linguists, and folklorists have circumscribed as the study of creole societies and creolization processes has resulted in far from a monolithic view of the past – the heated debates around An Anthropological Approach to the Afro-American Past (Mintz & Price 1976) being just one instance Most of the scholarship in anthropology, linguistics, and literary criticism concurs in drawing on creolization as one of the signifiers to speak broadly of cultural transformation.1 But the nature of this transformation, its agents, motives, and products are by no means agreed upon. What historians, socio- cultural anthropologists, linguists, and folklorists have circumscribed as the study of creole societies and creolization processes has resulted in far from a monolithic view of the past – the heated debates around An Anthropological Approach to the Afro-American Past (Mintz & Price 1976) being just one instance
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APA:
Romberg, R. (2008). Ritual Piracy or Creolization with an Attitude. New West Indian Guide, 79, 175-218. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002505
MLA:
Romberg, Raquel. "Ritual Piracy or Creolization with an Attitude." New West Indian Guide 79 (2008): 175-218.
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