K A Yelvington
Biographic Data
| ID | 17063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K A Yelvington |
| GIVEN NAMES | K A |
| FAMILY NAME | Yelvington |
| SIGNATURE | YELVINGTON K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1721-2571 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Why theory? An interview with Jon King
Jon King (b. 1955) is the lead singer and lyricist for Gang of Four, a band he co-formed as a student at Leeds University in 1977 and which played a central part in the innovative and politically charged art and music scene in the post-industrial northeastern city before gaining international critical acclaim and a devoted following. In this interview with anthropologist Kevin A. Yelvington, King discusses the songwriting and composition process …
The (applied) anthropology of ideology: Political Representations and/of Urban Redevelopment
Field Station Bahia: Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935–1967, by Livio Sansone
A Fourth Shift: Women Factory Workers Working the Articulations of Caribbean Capitalism
This article seeks to contribute to theoretical debates-resurgent in the 2000s, returning to Marxist-Feminist critiques of the 1970s-on the role of the social reproduction of labor power in capitalist production. Women factory workers are depicted in the literature as working three 'shifts' of formal wage labor, informal labor market activity, and participation in household economies. Based on ethnographic research among women factory workers in …
David Harrison: A career in the anthropology of tourism and the sociology of development
This paper analyses the career of the sociologist/social anthropologist of tourism David Harrison. An important figure in tourism studies across disciplinary boundaries and regional specialisation, Harrison went from academic appointments in Britain to the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and back to Britain again, conducting field studies in the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia and the Pacific. He engaged in and anticipated theoretical…
Political processes, authoritative institutions, and difference: An interview with R.D. Grillo
“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all”: A predicament for applied anthropology
Cultures, Open and in Process: An Interview with Ulf Hannerz
In this interview, Ulf Hannerz reflects on the relationship between the development of his career as an anthropologist and the elaboration of his theoretical positions. He recalls some of his fieldwork experiences and connects those experiences to his emerging conceptual apparatus in his own take on the culture concept, on cosmopolitanism, on creolization and cultural hybridity, on cultural flows and fluxes, on urban globalization and global futu…
A Conference That Didn’t: African Diaspora Studies and an episode in anthropology’s identity politics of representation
In 1968, the Social Science Research Council of the United States established the Committee on Afro-American Societies and Cultures which lasted until 1975 and which was initially chaired by the anthropologist Sidney W Mintz. In April, 1970, the committee held a conference on ‘Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Culture’ at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. The conference occurred in the context of ci…
Sidney W Mintz: Charting an anthropology of the Caribbean
The research program established by the anthropologist Sidney W Mintz (1922-2015) in a professional career spanning more than half a century was definitive in charting an anthropology of the Caribbean. Mintz's family context and early training in anthropology provided the basis for a Marxist/materialist and dialectical theoretical approach that interpreted historical structures and specificities through the paradigm of North American cultural ant…
From ethnographic knowledge to anthropological intelligence: An anthropologist in the office of strategic services in Second World War Africa
This article explores the overlapping modalities and practical purposes of anthropological ethnographic knowledge and political–military intelligence gathering – the commonalities as well as the boundaries between them – through an analysis of the career of the anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris (1912–2008), a secret operative for the United States’ Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War in Nigeria and South Africa. Calling upon…
Forum introduction
In a professional career spanning over six decades, Sidney Mintz (1922-2015) had an immense influence on anthropology, history, Caribbean studies, food studies, and the interdisciplinary study of commodity circuits across time and space. In his work, Mintz developed a historical and a Marxist/materialist approach that also bore the mark of his training in US cultural anthropology. The articles in this AE Forum explain Mintz's place in the history…
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities: Training the Next Generation of Anthropologists
Tourism and Applied Anthropology in Theory and Praxis
Academic social and cultural anthropology concerned with tourism has provided thick descriptions of the tourist exchange in a number of contexts, with exegeses devoted to illustrate the sexualized Other, the appropriation of landscape, the uses of the past in the present, and the detrimental effects of tourism structures on the ‘host’ communities. It has shown us how pilgrimages, beaches and museums become iconic and fetishized in the tourist’s g…
Wine Tourism in the Temecula Valley: Neoliberal Development Policies and Their Contradictions
Wine tourism is a growing phenomenon, with tourists enjoying not only wine but a rural lifestyle that is associated with winegrowing areas and the elusive essence of terroir. The Temecula Valley in southern California, a small wine-producing region and wine tourism destination, is experiencing state-led plans for a vast expansion of production and tourism capacity. This article traces the challenges inherent in this development process, and quest…
Understanding Contemporary Latin America
An indispensable introduction, both descriptive and analytical, to the complexities of contemporary Latin America
Constituting Paradigms in the Study of the African Diaspora, 1900-1950
Jack Sargent Harris (1912-2008)
Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean
Thoroughly updated to reflect recent events and trends, this new edition of Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean treats the full range of issues facing the region today
A Life In and Out of Anthropology: An Interview with Jack Sargent Harris
■ This article presents an interview with Jack Sargent Harris (1912-2008), an anthropologist who earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1940 and was one of the first US anthropologists to do fieldwork in Africa, showing an interest in materialistic theoretical approaches. As a merchant seaman before becoming an anthropologist he traveled the globe, including trips to the Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. During the S…
Andrew Hunter Whiteford (1913-2006)
Death Notices: Rodney Needham, James Andrew Marshall, Anja Helikki Olin-Fahle, Andrew Hunter "Bud" Whiteford
Dominican-Americans and the Politics of Empowerment
This book examines the ways first- and second-generation Dominican-Americans in the dynamic northern Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights have shaped a new Dominican presence in local New York City politics. Through community organizing, they have formed coalitions with people of different national and ethnic backgrounds and other people of color, tackled local concerns, and created new routes for empowerment. The character of Dominican-A…
Haiti and the anthropological imagination
In this article, the authors examine the ways Haiti was depicted in anthropological writings during the twentieth century, using the concept of the «anthropological imagination», which they define as an assemblage of representations and practices in the conceptual system of anthropology and the discipline's communicative interaction. The focus is on the work of the Haitian ethnologist Jean Price-Mars, the American anthropologist Melville J. Hersk…
Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean
A thorough - and engaging - discussion of the most crucial issues affecting the Caribbean today and the traditions, influences, and common themes underlying the many differences within this complex region
The Anthropology of Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean: Diasporic Dimensions
The contributions of a number of First and Third World scholars to the development of the anthropology of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean have been elided from the core of the discipline as practiced in North America and Europe. As such, the anthropology of the African diaspora in the Americas can be traced to the paradigmatic debate on the origins of New World black cultures between Euro-American anthropologist Melville J…
Producing power: Ethnicity, gender and class in a Caribbean workplace
History, Memory and Identity: A programmatic prolegomenon
Introduisant ce dossier sur la relation entre histoire, memoire et identite dans les Ameriques, l'A. - s'inspirant notamment de Walter Benjamin -, plaide pour de nouvelles orientations de la recherche historique en anthropologie et defend un point de vue conforme a l'objectif (marxiste) d'une histoire en tant que science materialiste, position theorique qui implique des engagements methodologiques et philosophiques, notamment quant a la temporali…
Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Introduction 1. Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and the Politics of Power 2. Locating the Ethnography in History, Economy, and Society 3. The Site of Production: A Trinidadian Factory 4. Ethnicity at Work 5. Gender at Work 6. Class at Work Conclusion Appendix: The EUL Supervisors and Line Workers Notes References Index
Ethnicity as Practice? A Comment on Bentley
Confronted with the reality of cargo cults, postcolonial politics, disunited working classes, and the United Nations seminars on racism, theorists of different persuasions have found themselves in the last twenty years having to explain-or explain away-ethnic phenomena. In his recent article in this journal (CSSH29:1, 24-55), G. Carter Bentley1 points out the deficiencies in the two pervading schools of thought on ethnicity and fruitfully advocat…
Flirting in the Factory
Une enquete ethnographique menee dans une usine de Trinidad forme la base de cet article. La main d'œuvre de cette usine est essentiellement composee d'ouvrieres noires et indiennes travaillant a la chaine, et de contremaitres blancs pour la majorite, les autres etant indiens. Selon l'A., le flirt, forme culturelle idiomatique, caracterise les relations sociales entre ouvrieres, ouvriers et contremaitres. Loin de se limiter a l'expression du desi…
Haiti and the anthropological imagination
In this article, the authors examine the ways Haiti was depicted in anthropological writings during the twentieth century, using the concept of the «anthropological imagination», which they define as an assemblage of representations and practices in the conceptual system of anthropology and the discipline's communicative interaction. The focus is on the work of the Haitian ethnologist Jean Price-Mars, the American anthropologist Melville J. Hersk…
On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39
Part One The regional character and historical roots of the labour rebelions: class struggle, class formation and early labour organizations demobilized soldiers from the British West Indies regiment labour organizations in the 1920s. Part Two The labour rebellions in the British Caribbean 1934-39: Belize St Kitts St Vincent St Lucia Trinidad Barbados the Bahamas Jamaica Antigua Guyana comparisons and conclusions
Diversity Dilemmas and Opportunities: Training the Next Generation of Anthropologists
An Interview with A. L. Epstein
An Interview with Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Constituting Paradigms in the Study of the African Diaspora, 1900-1950
A Life In and Out of Anthropology: An Interview with Jack Sargent Harris
■ This article presents an interview with Jack Sargent Harris (1912-2008), an anthropologist who earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1940 and was one of the first US anthropologists to do fieldwork in Africa, showing an interest in materialistic theoretical approaches. As a merchant seaman before becoming an anthropologist he traveled the globe, including trips to the Soviet Union, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America. During the S…
Whose History: Museum-making and struggles over ethnicity and representation in the Sunbelt
This article examines the contested versions of history, defined as a kind of discourse, surrounding the attempt to establish a museum in Tampa, Florida. As part of a strategy of urban redevelopment, white elites in Tampa in the early 1990s attempted to attract a museum with a piracy theme based on artefacts recovered from The Whydah Galley, an 18th-century pirate ship - the piracy image fitting well with their own `invented tradition'. However, …
Enduring Traditions and New Directions in Feminist Ethnography in the Caribbean and Latin America
A Conference That Didn’t: African Diaspora Studies and an episode in anthropology’s identity politics of representation
In 1968, the Social Science Research Council of the United States established the Committee on Afro-American Societies and Cultures which lasted until 1975 and which was initially chaired by the anthropologist Sidney W Mintz. In April, 1970, the committee held a conference on ‘Continuities and Discontinuities in Afro-American Societies and Culture’ at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. The conference occurred in the context of ci…
Sidney W Mintz: Charting an anthropology of the Caribbean
The research program established by the anthropologist Sidney W Mintz (1922-2015) in a professional career spanning more than half a century was definitive in charting an anthropology of the Caribbean. Mintz's family context and early training in anthropology provided the basis for a Marxist/materialist and dialectical theoretical approach that interpreted historical structures and specificities through the paradigm of North American cultural ant…
Forum introduction
In a professional career spanning over six decades, Sidney Mintz (1922-2015) had an immense influence on anthropology, history, Caribbean studies, food studies, and the interdisciplinary study of commodity circuits across time and space. In his work, Mintz developed a historical and a Marxist/materialist approach that also bore the mark of his training in US cultural anthropology. The articles in this AE Forum explain Mintz's place in the history…
A Fourth Shift: Women Factory Workers Working the Articulations of Caribbean Capitalism
This article seeks to contribute to theoretical debates-resurgent in the 2000s, returning to Marxist-Feminist critiques of the 1970s-on the role of the social reproduction of labor power in capitalist production. Women factory workers are depicted in the literature as working three 'shifts' of formal wage labor, informal labor market activity, and participation in household economies. Based on ethnographic research among women factory workers in …
Cultures, Open and in Process: An Interview with Ulf Hannerz
In this interview, Ulf Hannerz reflects on the relationship between the development of his career as an anthropologist and the elaboration of his theoretical positions. He recalls some of his fieldwork experiences and connects those experiences to his emerging conceptual apparatus in his own take on the culture concept, on cosmopolitanism, on creolization and cultural hybridity, on cultural flows and fluxes, on urban globalization and global futu…
From ethnographic knowledge to anthropological intelligence: An anthropologist in the office of strategic services in Second World War Africa
This article explores the overlapping modalities and practical purposes of anthropological ethnographic knowledge and political–military intelligence gathering – the commonalities as well as the boundaries between them – through an analysis of the career of the anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris (1912–2008), a secret operative for the United States’ Office of Strategic Services during the Second World War in Nigeria and South Africa. Calling upon…
Andrew Hunter Whiteford (1913-2006)
A Historian among the Anthropologists
Delimiting Anthropology: Occasional Inquiries and Reflections. George W. Stocking Jr. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. 404 pp
An Interview with Andrew Hunter Whiteford
IntroductionAndrew Hunter Whiteford, Bud to his family and friends, has enjoyed a long, diverse and distinguished career in anthropology, from archaeology in the Southwest and in the Southeast of the United States, to the anthropology of industrial relations, to innovative urban research in Latin America, to museum collecting and artifact stewardship. Born in 1913 in Winnipeg, he was an anthropology major at Beloit College, in Wisconsin, graduati…
Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad
Cities, Society, and Social Perception
Journal Article Cities, Society, and Social Perception Get access Cities, Society, and Social Perception, by J. Clyde Mitchell. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987. xviii+336 pp. £30 hardback. ISBN 0 19 823253 5. KEVIN A. YELVINGTON KEVIN A. YELVINGTON University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 350, January 1989, Pages 138–139, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.af…
The Caribbean Revisited
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Ethnicity as Practice? A Comment on Bentley
Confronted with the reality of cargo cults, postcolonial politics, disunited working classes, and the United Nations seminars on racism, theorists of different persuasions have found themselves in the last twenty years having to explain-or explain away-ethnic phenomena. In his recent article in this journal (CSSH29:1, 24-55), G. Carter Bentley1 points out the deficiencies in the two pervading schools of thought on ethnicity and fruitfully advocat…
Working Miracles: Women's Lives in the English-speaking Caribbean
This text takes a multidisciplinary approach to the study of women and gender issues in the Caribbean. Olive Senior, using her imaginative skills as a poet, has written a readable books based on a substantial academic examination of women's lives and work in fourteen countries of the Caribbean. In addition she uses examples from literature and popular culture, adn the voices of the women themselves. Caribbean: ISER, University of the West Indies
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History . PHILIP D. Curtin
The politics of representing the African diaspora in the Caribbean
First paragraph]Roots of Jamaican Culture. MERVYN C. ALLEYNE. London: Pluto Press, 1988. xii + 186 pp. (Paper US$ 15.95)Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in Trinidad Culture. MAUREEN WARNER-LEWIS. Foreword by Rex Nettleford. Dover MA: The Majority Press, 1991. xxii + 207 pp. (Paper US$ 9.95)A recent trend in anthropology is defined by the interest in the role of historical and political configurations in the constitution of local cultural …
Citrus, Strategy, and Class: The Politics of Development in Southern Belize. Mark Moberg
Trinidad Ethnicity
Trinidad Ethnicity
Producing power: Ethnicity, gender and class in a Caribbean workplace
Flirting in the Factory
Une enquete ethnographique menee dans une usine de Trinidad forme la base de cet article. La main d'œuvre de cette usine est essentiellement composee d'ouvrieres noires et indiennes travaillant a la chaine, et de contremaitres blancs pour la majorite, les autres etant indiens. Selon l'A., le flirt, forme culturelle idiomatique, caracterise les relations sociales entre ouvrieres, ouvriers et contremaitres. Loin de se limiter a l'expression du desi…
An Interview with A. L. Epstein
On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39
Part One The regional character and historical roots of the labour rebelions: class struggle, class formation and early labour organizations demobilized soldiers from the British West Indies regiment labour organizations in the 1920s. Part Two The labour rebellions in the British Caribbean 1934-39: Belize St Kitts St Vincent St Lucia Trinidad Barbados the Bahamas Jamaica Antigua Guyana comparisons and conclusions
Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace
Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly Introduction 1. Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and the Politics of Power 2. Locating the Ethnography in History, Economy, and Society 3. The Site of Production: A Trinidadian Factory 4. Ethnicity at Work 5. Gender at Work 6. Class at Work Conclusion Appendix: The EUL Supervisors and Line Workers Notes References Index
Pathology and Identity: The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad
Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills
Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills. Leela Fernandes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 199 pp
Trinidadian capitalism
First paragraph]Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach. DANIEL MILLER. Oxford: Berg, 1997. x + 357 pp. (Cloth £39.00, Paper £17.99)Women, Labour and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago: A History. RHODA E. REDDOCK. London: Zed, 1994. vi + 346 pp. (Cloth £39.95, Paper £15.95)Despite the underdeveloped state of the scholarship on its admittedly short sugar plantation slavery period, we now have a corpus of studies on various aspects of capitalism in Trin…
Enduring Traditions and New Directions in Feminist Ethnography in the Caribbean and Latin America
Missionary Zeal and High Tech Work on Florida's Space Coast
The Anthropology of Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean: Diasporic Dimensions
The contributions of a number of First and Third World scholars to the development of the anthropology of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean have been elided from the core of the discipline as practiced in North America and Europe. As such, the anthropology of the African diaspora in the Americas can be traced to the paradigmatic debate on the origins of New World black cultures between Euro-American anthropologist Melville J…
An Interview with Andrew Hunter Whiteford
IntroductionAndrew Hunter Whiteford, Bud to his family and friends, has enjoyed a long, diverse and distinguished career in anthropology, from archaeology in the Southwest and in the Southeast of the United States, to the anthropology of industrial relations, to innovative urban research in Latin America, to museum collecting and artifact stewardship. Born in 1913 in Winnipeg, he was an anthropology major at Beloit College, in Wisconsin, graduati…
Whose History: Museum-making and struggles over ethnicity and representation in the Sunbelt
This article examines the contested versions of history, defined as a kind of discourse, surrounding the attempt to establish a museum in Tampa, Florida. As part of a strategy of urban redevelopment, white elites in Tampa in the early 1990s attempted to attract a museum with a piracy theme based on artefacts recovered from The Whydah Galley, an 18th-century pirate ship - the piracy image fitting well with their own `invented tradition'. However, …
History, Memory and Identity: A programmatic prolegomenon
Introduisant ce dossier sur la relation entre histoire, memoire et identite dans les Ameriques, l'A. - s'inspirant notamment de Walter Benjamin -, plaide pour de nouvelles orientations de la recherche historique en anthropologie et defend un point de vue conforme a l'objectif (marxiste) d'une histoire en tant que science materialiste, position theorique qui implique des engagements methodologiques et philosophiques, notamment quant a la temporali…
Understanding the Contemporary Caribbean
A thorough - and engaging - discussion of the most crucial issues affecting the Caribbean today and the traditions, influences, and common themes underlying the many differences within this complex region
Sociology (37 works) · Anthropology (25 works) · History (24 works) · Political science (20 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (18 works) · History (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (13 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Politics (13 works)