| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 322 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
Country and Community: On the Politics of Cultural Struggle. Cockalorum: Spatial Boundaries, Economic Limits, and Cultural Constraints. Status Stratification and Status Signaling. The Art of Becoming "Somebody" -- Ideology, Ethnicity, and Anglo-European Hegemony: Ideology and the Formation of Anglo-European Hegemony. Anglo-European Hegemony and the Culture of Domination. The JlEthnic Production" of Class Stratification -- Ethnicity, Class, and Cultural Production: Religion, Class, Culture, and the Ghost of Hegemony. "Bamboo" Weddings and the Ghost of Hegemonic Dominance. Locating and Exorcizing the Ghost |
| Summary |
Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to achieve the consciousness of nationhood, and the need of its diverse subgroups to maintain their own identity. Stains on My Name, War in My Veins chronicles the complex struggles of the citizens of Guyana to form a unified national culture against the pulls of ethnic, religious, and class identities. Drawing on oral histories and a close study of daily life in rural Guyana, Brackette E. Williams examines how and why individuals and groups in their q |
| Analysis |
Culture History |
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Guyana |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-315) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Cultural pluralism -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century
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Ethnicity -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century
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Nationalism -- Guyana -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Civilization
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Cultural pluralism
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Ethnic relations
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Ethnicity
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Nationalism
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Kultursoziologie
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Nationalismus
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Geschichte (1966-1990)
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Guyana -- Civilization -- 20th century
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Guyana -- Ethnic relations
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Guyana
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Guayana
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90047529 |
| ISBN |
9780822381662 |
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0822381664 |
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