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Creolization and Its Discontents

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ID7635263
AuthorsStephan Palmié (0000-0001-7820-3199, University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume35
Issue1
Pages433-456
Publication date2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123149
OpenAlexW2140971052
LanguageEN
Citations received105
References cited129

In the past two decades, analogies drawn from supposedly Caribbean processes of creolization have begun to command increasing interest in anthropology. Examining historical as well as contemporary social uses of this terminology in its region of origin, as well as linguistic, sociocultural, and archaeological extrapolations from such usages, this review argues that although, as an analytical metaphor, “creolization” may appear to remedy certain deficits in long-standing anthropological agendas, the current unreflexive use of it is neither defensible on empirical grounds nor theoretically well advised. Yet while this review argues against further uncritical extensions of such metaphorics, it analyzes their current proliferation as a social phenomenon worthy of anthropological analysis in its own right

Creolization · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Phenomenon · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Terminology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Philosophy

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