Archiving Caribbean Identity: Records, Community, and Memory

Author:   John Aarons ,  Jeannette A. Bastian (Emerita Professor at Simmons University.) ,  Stanley Hazley Griffin (Deputy Dean at The University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367615093


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   13 June 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Aarons ,  Jeannette A. Bastian (Emerita Professor at Simmons University.) ,  Stanley Hazley Griffin (Deputy Dean at The University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica.)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.648kg
ISBN:  

9780367615093


ISBN 10:   0367615096
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   13 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction; Part I. Tangible and Intangible Formats: Chapter 1. Soca and collective memory; Savannah Grass as an archive of Carnival; Chapter 2. Jamaican twitter as a repository for documenting memory and social resistance: Listening to the ""articulate minority""; Chapter 3. Singing Our Caribbean Identity: Programming the UWI, Mona Festival of the Nine Lessons with Carols; Chapter 4. Archives ""cast in stone"": Memorials as memory; Chapter 5. Landscape as record: Archiving the Antigua Recreation Ground; Chapter 6. Concert Dance in Barbados as Archive: Dancing the national narratives; Chapter 7. Remembering an art exhibit: The Face of Jamaica, 1963-1964; Chapter 8. Traditional and new record sources in geointerpretive methods for reconstructing biophysical history: Whither Withywood; Part II. Collections Through a Caribbean Lens: Chapter 9. Resistance in/and the Pre-Emancipation Archives; Chapter 10. Postcolonial philately as memory and history: Stamping a new identity for Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 11. Recasting Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody (1900 - 1984): An archival homecoming; Chapter 12. St. Lucian memory and identity through the eyes of John Robert Lee; Chapter 13. Crop Over and Carnival in the archives of Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 14. Ecclesiastical Records as Sources of Social History; The Anglican Church of Trinidad and Tobago; Chapter 15. Erasure and retention in Jamaica’s official memory; The case of the disappearing telegrams; Index."

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John A. Aarons, now retired, was Executive Director of the National Library of Jamaica (1992–2002), Government Archivist of Jamaica (2002–2008), and University Archivist of the University of the West Indies (2009–2014). Jeannette A. Bastian is Emerita Professor at Simmons University. She is currently an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Library and Information at the University of the West Indies. Stanley H. Griffin is Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Matters (Humanities), and Lecturer in Archival and Information Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Department of Library and Information Studies, at the University of the West Indies, Mona Jamaica.

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