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Vodou Brooklyn
Five Ceremonies with Mambo Marie Carmel
Stephanie Keith |
| This book is an intimate portrayal of a Haitian immigrant Vodou priestess. Color photographs and text document the young Mambo presiding over five distinct Vodou ceremonies held in one year in a single basement in Brooklyn, NY. By focusing on what happens in this transformed basement, the reader becomes personally involved with the people of this community through seeing them... More |
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"...I have never seen photography as respectful, as transcendent, as perfect as that of Stephanie Keith's..."
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, Houngan Asogwe and Professor of Africology
University of... Read review |
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"I began to follow Marie Carmel to all her various ceremonies....she started having small events in her apartment, and friends' apartments and at various rented... Read excerpt |
08/16/2010, CSP, 138pp, Full color photographs by Stephanie Keith, Paperback
ISBN 978-1-58432-670-0 |
$35.00 |
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Fieldwork Identities in the Caribbean
Erin B. Taylor |
| What is it really like to do fieldwork?
Answers to this question are as diverse as the researchers and the field sites they choose. Anthropologists no longer fit the stereotype of white Westerners going to exotic places to study people very different from themselves. Rather, anthropologists now come from a variety of backgrounds, and their identities are complicated, even to them.
This... More |
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"This book emerged from a simple question posed to me by a graduate student in anthropology. She asked me,... Read excerpt |
12/15/2009, Caribbean Studies Press. Catalog Number: CSP6007, 258pp, Paperback
ISBN 978-1-58432-600-7 |
$27.50 |
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Caribbean Landscapes
An Interpretive Atlas
Timothy S. Brothers, Jeffrey S. Wilson and Owen P. Dwyer |
| A major new reference, this full-color work is a selective introduction to the diversity of Caribbean landscapes, showing underlying patterns without overlooking the uniqueness of individual places. Combining scholarship and expertise in remote-sensing technologies, cartography, photography, and fieldwork, this team of geographers from the University of Indiana-Purdue University Indianapolis presents a taxonomy of Caribbean environments. Not an atlas in... More |
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From the Journal of Latin American Geography---
"It is the rare book that combines artistic images with informative text, but 'Caribbean Landscapes" accomplishes just that. The... Read review |
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From the Preface: The Geographical Perspective on the Caribbean
Our purpose is not merely to describe the landscapes shown here but to interpret them: set them... Read excerpt |
August, 2008, Caribbean Studies Press. Catalog Number: CSP4591, 249pp, full color throughout, twin loop lay-flat
ISBN 978-1-58432-459-1 |
$59.00 |
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Florida Phrasebook
English-Spanish-Haitian Creole-Portuguese
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| A clear and easy-to-use guide to quick and basic communication in the four languages most spoken in multilingual and multicultural Florida. Useful for business and personal life, this reference thematically covers useful forms of etiquette, going places, giving information about yourself, shopping, eating, and other essential topics. The phrasebook also includes a useful 5,000 word vocabulary in each... More |
2009, Educa Vision, Inc., 410pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 9781584322382 |
$27.50 |
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English-Haitian Creole/Haitian Creole-English Word-to-Word Dictionary
Fequiere Vilsaint and Jean-Evans Berret |
| Bilingual Dictionary Series |
| Current and comprehensive word lists of over 30,000 terms in a parallel-language format. Covers a broad range of subjects, including the arts, business and commerce, history, industry, law, leisure activities, mathematics, mechanics, medicine, shopping, sports, technology, and more. |
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"The dictionary is a great help to our students. The fact that it covers a lot of current terminology makes it so useful because it... Read review |
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A sample of three contiguous entries:
emergency room: sal ijans lopital
Emergency Quota Act: Lwa sou kwota le gen ijans
emerging technology: teknoloji ki fek ap paret |
2005, Educa Vision, Inc., 383pp, Softcover
ISBN 1-58432-2294-2 |
$24.50 |
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English-Portuguese / Portuguese Word-to-Word Dictionary
Fequiere Vilsaint and Louise Canuto |
| A practical reference to help both English and Portuguese learners of the other language improve their language skills and clarify issues of orthography. |
2007, Educa Vision, Inc., 321pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 1-58432-417-1 |
$18.50 |
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English-Spanish / Spanish-English Word-to-Word Dictionary
Martha Arturo Sánchez, Fequiere Vilsaint, and Orlando Figueredo |
| This is a practical reference to help English and Spanish learners of the other language improve their language skills and clarify issues of orthography. The dictionary contains 27,000 word entries, many with multiple meanings, chosen by word frequency. |
2008, Educa Vision, Inc., 508pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 9781584324843 |
$24.50 |
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English-French / French-English Word-to-Word Dictionary
Fequiere Vilsaint and France Robert-Dubois |
| This English/French dictionary is a practical reference to help both French and English learners of the other language improve their language skills and clarify issues of orthography. The dictionary contains 27,000 word entries, many with multiple meanings, based on word frequency. |
2005, Educa Vision, Inc., 448pp, Perfect binding (softcover)
ISBN 1584324805 |
$24.50 |
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