Colleen Ballerino Cohen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88549 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Colleen Ballerino Cohen |
| NOMBRES | Colleen Ballerino |
| APELLIDO | Cohen |
| FIRMA | COHEN C B |
| AFILIACIONES | Vassar College |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9744-9059 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 292 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
A Region among States
Love beads
In this piece of creative non-fiction, I use a countercultural artifact, love beads, to reflect on what life was like on an American countercultural commune in the 1960s and 1970s and to construct a sense of the style, visions, and hopes of the times. Not intended to be reflective of the counterculture writ large, the piece centers on one countercultural commune, its members, and their experiences. The beads take us through the beginnings of the …
Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica
Brand Jamaica
The Pursuit of Happiness
Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean
BVI Barbie
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a small Eastern Caribbean country whose economy is based on elite tourism and financial services and where questions of local affiliation intersect with global prerogatives and competing national loyalties. These intersections were highlighted in the talent performance of the winning contestant of a 2009 pageant selecting a queen to represent the BVI in the Miss Universe pageant. In her performance, the contest…
Tahiti beyond the Postcard
Trinidad Carnival Today
Trinidad Carnival Today:Local Culture in a Global Context Colleen Ballerino Cohen Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher (eds.), Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007. 254 pp. When I first started looking at Festival on the Eastern Caribbean island of Tortola almost two decades ago, there were a few articles that treated Trinidad's Carnival and Caribbean festivals in…
West Indian in the West
Media Worlds
This is De Test
In this discussion of an annual festival commemorating emancipation in the British Virgin Islands I examine the interconnections among concrete social and political structures and circumstances and the contingent histories put into play in moves to constitute a sense of national identity. By focusing on a competition between bands from two neighboring but politically distinct islands, I map a complex "national" identity that crosscuts local, regi…
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage
The Myth of the Male Breadwinner
Women Writing Culture
Marketing paradise, making nation
Legitimate Acts and iilegal Encounters
Tourism Alternatives
Reply to Kirby
Fieldwork as cultural process
Butler, Barbara, and Diane Michalski Turner, eds. Children and Anthropological Research. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1987. xi + 161 pp. including chapter references and author and subject indices. $39.50 cloth. Friedrich, Paul. The Princes of Naranja: An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. xx + 305 pp. including appendices and notes. $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper. Alverson, Marianne. Under African Sun. C…
The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology
Lasers in the jungle
Not Hollywood
Queen for a Day
The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology
Marketing paradise, making nation
This is De Test
In this discussion of an annual festival commemorating emancipation in the British Virgin Islands I examine the interconnections among concrete social and political structures and circumstances and the contingent histories put into play in moves to constitute a sense of national identity. By focusing on a competition between bands from two neighboring but politically distinct islands, I map a complex "national" identity that crosscuts local, regi…
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage
West Indian in the West
BVI Barbie
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a small Eastern Caribbean country whose economy is based on elite tourism and financial services and where questions of local affiliation intersect with global prerogatives and competing national loyalties. These intersections were highlighted in the talent performance of the winning contestant of a 2009 pageant selecting a queen to represent the BVI in the Miss Universe pageant. In her performance, the contest…
Trinidad Carnival Today
Trinidad Carnival Today:Local Culture in a Global Context Colleen Ballerino Cohen Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher (eds.), Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007. 254 pp. When I first started looking at Festival on the Eastern Caribbean island of Tortola almost two decades ago, there were a few articles that treated Trinidad's Carnival and Caribbean festivals in…
Media Worlds
Reply to Kirby
Fieldwork as cultural process
Butler, Barbara, and Diane Michalski Turner, eds. Children and Anthropological Research. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1987. xi + 161 pp. including chapter references and author and subject indices. $39.50 cloth. Friedrich, Paul. The Princes of Naranja: An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. xx + 305 pp. including appendices and notes. $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper. Alverson, Marianne. Under African Sun. C…
Lasers in the jungle
Double Liminality and the Black Woman Writer
Double Liminality and the Black Woman Writer
The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology
Lasers in the jungle
Reply to Kirby
Fieldwork as cultural process
Butler, Barbara, and Diane Michalski Turner, eds. Children and Anthropological Research. New York and London: Plenum Press, 1987. xi + 161 pp. including chapter references and author and subject indices. $39.50 cloth. Friedrich, Paul. The Princes of Naranja: An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986. xx + 305 pp. including appendices and notes. $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper. Alverson, Marianne. Under African Sun. C…
Tourism Alternatives
Marketing paradise, making nation
Legitimate Acts and iilegal Encounters
The Myth of the Male Breadwinner
Women Writing Culture
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage
Beauty Queens on the Global Stage
This is De Test
In this discussion of an annual festival commemorating emancipation in the British Virgin Islands I examine the interconnections among concrete social and political structures and circumstances and the contingent histories put into play in moves to constitute a sense of national identity. By focusing on a competition between bands from two neighboring but politically distinct islands, I map a complex "national" identity that crosscuts local, regi…
Media Worlds
West Indian in the West
Trinidad Carnival Today
Trinidad Carnival Today:Local Culture in a Global Context Colleen Ballerino Cohen Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher (eds.), Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2007. 254 pp. When I first started looking at Festival on the Eastern Caribbean island of Tortola almost two decades ago, there were a few articles that treated Trinidad's Carnival and Caribbean festivals in…
Tahiti beyond the Postcard
BVI Barbie
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a small Eastern Caribbean country whose economy is based on elite tourism and financial services and where questions of local affiliation intersect with global prerogatives and competing national loyalties. These intersections were highlighted in the talent performance of the winning contestant of a 2009 pageant selecting a queen to represent the BVI in the Miss Universe pageant. In her performance, the contest…
Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean
The Pursuit of Happiness
Brand Jamaica
Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica
Not Hollywood
Queen for a Day
Love beads
In this piece of creative non-fiction, I use a countercultural artifact, love beads, to reflect on what life was like on an American countercultural commune in the 1960s and 1970s and to construct a sense of the style, visions, and hopes of the times. Not intended to be reflective of the counterculture writ large, the piece centers on one countercultural commune, its members, and their experiences. The beads take us through the beginnings of the …
Sociology (21 obras) · Art (13 obras) · History (11 obras) · Art history (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Anthropology (8 obras) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (8 obras)