Before the Volcano: Reverberations of Identity on Montserrat - Softcover

Jonathan Skinner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9768189215 ISBN 13: 9789768189219

Publisher: Arawak Publications, 2004

Synopsis

How is identity claimed, contested and sustained? This book looks at retentions, reconstructions and reverberations of identity in a colonial Caribbean setting. It is uncomfortable and impressionistic ethnography of life on the island of Montserrat leading up to and including the present day volcanic eruptions. It explores Montserrats existing colonial identity and emerging postcolonial identity drawing upon examples from local poets. Calypsonians and historians; controversial development and trade union struggles; and the impact of tourism and colonialism on the island Black Irish identity claims and the celebration and/or commemoration of St Patricks Day in particular. This book will appeal to Anthropologists, Sociologists, and Cultural Studies and Caribbean Studies scholars, as well as those involved in and concerned for the reconstruction of Montserrat the place and Monsrat the people.

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About the Author

Jonathan Skinner is reader in social anthropology at the University of Roehampton. His interests are in the anthropology of leisure: specifically tourism regeneration and tour guiding, contested heritage and dark tourism, and social dancing and wellbeing. He has worked in the Caribbean, the USA and the UK. His most recent publication is Leisure and Death: Lively Encounters with Risk, Death, and Dying co-edited with Adam Kaul (University of Colorado Press, 2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Arawak Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9768189215
• ISBN 13: 9789768189219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 219