ANTB20H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Polysemy, West African Vodun, Indep
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G rard uses narratives to craft relat"s w/ potent. clients f/ his tour guide business (170) when hassim was four years old, g rard"s wife was killed in political violence. Rumour + gossip concerning one"s identity and appearance could influence common that percept. of being haitian --. deportation even if papers say domin. (6,000. Purpose of writing a/b him: g rard"s u/st of cultural polities of haitian identity in b. c. (167) He struggled to be something other than what he was. This struggle was economic trying to make a living u/d unfavourable circumstances. Aggravated by prob. of trying to created identity/self where being haitian overdetermined one"s location w/i the division of labour and also the nature of one"s being . Dominican elites as a whole master trope of blackness has no existing/ontological resistance while visiting relatives in haiti, leaving him a single parent.
