A response to Kevin Birth
Article Abstract:
Some of the claims made by Kevin Birth in his book on kinship in Eastern Trinidad seem flawed and baseless. For one, he claimed that there is a difference in kinship affiliation between Creoles and Indo-Trinidadians by using a source that actually directly opposed the citations that he was meaning to support. His belief that his work is associated with recent work on the same subject, which treated racial identities in Trinidad as 'socially negotiated,' is also erroneous as some of the views he proposed in his book were in direct contrast to the proposals advanced by the authors he was purportedly in concert with on the subject.
Publication Name: American Ethnologist
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0094-0496
Year: 1998
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Second thoughts: response to Moore
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Methodological issues are discussed in relation to questions raised by Sally Falk Moore in response to the 1998 Max Gluckman Memorial Lecture on occult economies in South Africa. The debate between empiricism and an imaginative approach to sociology frames the discussion.
Publication Name: American Ethnologist
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0094-0496
Year: 1999
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