Anthropology 4400E Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Chaguanas, Ethnography, Expensive Taste
14 Apr 2018
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Anthro 4400 notes on reading migration, material culture and tragedy: four moments in caribbean migration by daniel miller. Looks at four moments in the history of caribbean migration to the ik though an analysis of the home interiors. Studies 1) contemporary living rooms in trini. 2) an exhibition of caribbean migrants to the uk. 3) a study by horst of migrants returning to jamaica from the uk. 4) a study of two specific migrants from the caribbean in london. Considers how material culture exposes a potential tragic aspect of the migration process. What creates tragedy is not disruption which is generally seen as the negative aspect of migration, but continuity. The concept of roots has been generally celebrated and romanticized as solution to disruption in migration. There is loss and gain in continuity. The way caribbean migrants relate to their homes and domestic possessions in four settings.
