Katherine E Browne: 2 books
Creole Economics
Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
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...
Standing in the Need
Culture, Comfort, and Coming Home After Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s ordeal after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this family of one hundred fifty members lived in the bayou communities of St. Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans. Rooted there like the wild red iris of...