Melissa A. Johnson

Becoming Creole: Nature and Race in Belize

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how people become who they are through their relationships with the natural world, and shows how those relationships are also always embedded in processes of racialization. Melissa A. Johnson provides an analysis of how processes of racialization are present in the entanglements between people and the non-human worlds in which they live.

Produktdetails

• Critical Caribbean Studies
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 353g
• ISBN-13: 9780813596983
• ISBN-10: 081359698X
• Artikelnr.: 51766756

Autorenporträt

MELISSA A. JOHNSON is a professor of anthropology at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.  

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Becoming Creole
2 Hewers of Wood: Histories of Nature, Race and
Becoming                           
3 Bush: Racing the More than
Human                                                   
4 Living in a Powerful
World                                                                            
5 Entangling the More than Human: Becoming Creole               
6 Wildlife Conservation, Nature Tourism and Creole
Becomings                                   
7 Transnational Becomings: From Deer Sausage to Tilapia
8 Conclusion: Livity and (Human) Being                       
Appendix/Glossary: Belizean Kriol Words and the More than Human??
Bibliography                                                                                                                
    
Index
About the Author