Miguel Vale de Almeida

Earth-colored Sea (eBook, PDF)

'Race', Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World

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Produktbeschreibung

Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and postcolonialism. The structure of the book reflects a trajectory of research, starting with a case study in Trinidad, followed by another one in Brazil, and ending with yet another one in Portugal. The three case studies, written in the ethnographic genre, are intertwined with essays of a more theoretical nature. The non-monographic, composite - or hybrid - nature of this work may be in itself an indication of the need for transnational and historically grounded research when dealing with issues of representations of identity that were constructed during colonial times and that are today reconfigured in the ideological struggles over cultural meanings.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782388548
• Artikelnr.: 44912368

Autorenporträt

Miguel Vale de Almeida is lecturer of Anthropology at I.S.C.T.E., Lisbon. He is also a political and social activist in Portugal, and a fiction writer.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Potogee: Being Portuguese in Trinidad
Chapter 2. Powers, Products, and Passions: The Black Movement in a Town of
Bahia, Brazil
Chapter 3. Tristes Luso-Tropiques: The Roots and Ramifications of
Luso-Tropicalist Discourses
Chapter 4. "Longing for Oneself": Hybridism and Miscegenation in Colonial
and Postcolonial Portugal
Chapter 5. Epilogue of Empire: East Timor and the Portuguese Postcolonial
Catharsis
Chapter 6. Pitfalls and Perspectives in Anthropology, Postcolonialism, and
the Portuguese-Speaking World
Epilogue: A Sailor's Tale
Bibliography
Index