Timothy Leary's 90th birthday today. Happy birthday, Tim! We miss you! Top left, a track from "Timothy Leary: You Can Be Anyone This Time Around" (1970) with Stephen Stills (guitar), John Sebastian (guitar), Buddy Miles (drums), and Jimi Hendrix (bass). Above, Tim with bOING bOING founders Carla Sinclair and Mark Frauenfelder in 1995; and with me in 1991. Caribbean Cultural Studies: Marsha Pearce. “Caribbean” is a root word. “Caribbean” is also a “route” (Stuart Hall) word – it can offer one way to travel; one path in practices of self-articulation. When you add the suffix “-ness” to the root/route, the resultant word is one that compels you to confront a condition of being – that condition or quality of “being Caribbean.” What then is Caribbeanness? What characterises or constitutes being Caribbean? The Discourse of Cultural Identity To begin to seek answers to such questions, it is necessary to acknowledge that any consideration of notions of Caribbeanness happens within discourses.
Tourism Discourse Within the discourse of cultural identity, there exists a subset: the tourism discourse, and, it is here that I look to next. Authenticity: A Question of Truth The issue of truth is complex – truth according to whom? A Sense of Caribbeanness One Sense: Cuban intellectual Antonio Benítez-Rojo emphasises connections/relations rather than separation in a proposal for Caribbeanness.
Notes. Caribbean Cultural Studies. The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures : news, music, arts. The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures : news, music, arts. Caribbean culture featuring Caribbean and West Indian community. Center for Black Studies Research. Caribbean Review of Books: ABOUT the CRB. Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. The Caribbean Writer - 2008. We Are Ugly But We Are Here, article by Edwidge Danticat.
By Edwidge Danticat The Caribbean Writer, Volume 10 (1996) One of the first people murdered on our land was a queen. Her name was Anacaona and she was an Arawak Indian. She was a poet, dancer, and even a painter. She ruled over the western part of an island so lush and green that the Arawaks called it Ayiti land of high. When the Spaniards came from across the sea to look for gold, Anacaona was one of their first victims. I was born under Haiti's dictatorial Duvalier regime. I am twenty six years old now and have spent more than half of my life in the United States. As a little girl, I attended more than my share of funerals. When I was eight, my uncle' s brother-in-law went on a long journey to cut cane in the Dominican Republic.
I have memories of Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier and his wife, racing by in their Mercedes Benz and throwing money out of the window to the very poor children in our neighborhood. All of this now brings many questions buzzing to my head. Chapter V: Development of Obeah in Jamaica. Sacred Texts African Index Previous Next As shown elsewhere it was the Ashanti in Jamaica who, during the days of slavery, maintained a commanding influence over all the other types of slaves, even imposing on them their peculiar superstitions and religious practices, and who have left their impress on the general population of the Island to such an extent that they may undoubtedly be declared the dominant influence in evolving our Jamaica peasant of the present day.[1] Thus, to briefly summarize a few of the principal facts, in Jamaica folklore, or Anancy stories, we find the spider, anancy, as the central figure and his son Tacoma as next in importance, with both names and characters derived directly from the Ashanti.
Here also the Ashanti name of Odum is perserved {sic} for the silk-cotton tree. These stories are passed along by the Nana or Granny, and again the function and title are both Ashanti. . [1. Williams, Hebrewisms of West Africa, Introduction.] {p. 143} [2. 3. {p. 144} [4. . [6. Caribbean Religion: Rastafarianism | caribbean-guide.info. Although the Caribbean has been, since the earliest days of European conquest, nominally Christian, the black power movements of the early 1900s helped launch a completely different kind of religion. Based on Christianity and the King James Bible, Rastafarian beliefs also include the worship of Ras (meaning Prince) Tafari of Ethiopia. This movement began in Jamaica, though it has since spread throughout the Caribbean, in fact, practitioners can be found around the globe.
It began in 1932 when Ras Tafari became Emperor of Ethiopia. Crowned Haile Selassie, the religious movement begun by Marcus Garvey still bears his princely name. Selassie, however, was not just any man. He claimed lineage from biblical times, saying he was the descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. But Garvey's followers believed he was even more. Although most beliefs are considered Christian, the Rastafarian movement associates Africa with heaven. Political Leanings Acts of Faith Cultural Expressions. "God is dumb until the drum speaks" Religious Life in Jamaica be. Obi, or, The history of Three ... - Google Livres. Kumina. Kumina or CuBa is a cultural form indigenous to Jamaica.[1] It is a religion, music and dance practiced by, in large part, Jamaicans who reside in the eastern parish on St. Thomas on the island. These people have retained the drumming and dancing of the Akan people.
Like the Kongo practitioners from Cuba and the Dominican Republic, who have kept a large amount of the Kongo language alive. Bantu-speaking peoples of the Congo. In the Americas there are many Kongo-derived religions still being practiced today. There are two main aspects of Kongo religion that are quite distinctive. Kumina is an Afro-Jamaican religion influenced mainly by the Bantu peoples from the Congo-Angola area. Kumina provides a perfect example of what intra African syncretism represents.
Kumina deities are separated into sky bound and earth bound deities. Organization of Kumina communities follows the general local character of African religions in Jamaica. Here we[who?] References[edit] External links[edit] Untitled. Obeah & Myal. When Bilby conducted research in Prospect, Manchester, seventy years later, he found that several older residents remembered the gumbay tradition well, and they assured me that it had indeed been connected with both Jonkonnu and myal. Encouraged to continue west into the parish of St.
Elizabeth, Bilby soon discovered a thriving Jonkunnu culture in Nassau, St. Elizabeth, where he was informed that he had arrived just in time, for that very night was the night the Jangkunu will be destroyed, when we dance myal. Bilby noticed that Myal was the common denominator of two independent but related traditions known as Gumbay Play and Jonkunnu among local residents, and he specifically describes the Myal specialist as a male or female who is an expert dancer and spirit medium. Describing Myal possession in Gumbay Play, he writes: Obeah and Myal: Avenues to Neutral Mystical Power The White enslaver brought sheer misfortune and the depreciation of African life.