David V Trotman
Biographic Data
| ID | 172717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David V Trotman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David V |
| FAMILY NAME | Trotman |
| SIGNATURE | TROTMAN D V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Spectacle and the Colonial Imagination
Atlantic childhood and youth in global context
This article is an introduction to the special issue dedicated to exploring the ways in which childhood and youth have been shaped by Atlantic and global dynamics. It explores some of the methodological and theoretical challenges of writing a history of childhood and youth in the Global South. The authors suggest that current theories which address the experiences of young people do not adequately consider the historical specificities of childhoo…
Acts of Possession and Symbolic Decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago
It is this awe of the numinous, this elemental privilege of naming the New World which annihilates history in our great poets, an elation common to all of them, whether they are aligned by heritage to Crusoe and Prospero or to Friday and Caliban.-Derek Walcott, “The Muse of History”
Reflections on the Children of Shango
Studies of the transfer and development of Yoruba religious practices in the Americas have tended to focus on Candomble in Brazil and Santeria in Cuba. This essay examines the development of the practice of Orisa worship in Trinidad which received the bulk of its Yoruba settlers in the post-emancipation period. It explores the impact of the socio-economic adjustments of a frontier society on the development of this religious practice and identifi…
Performing the History
This article examines the popularization of historical ideas and the cultivation of an historical consciousness and imagination in post-independence Trinidad. It focuses on the way in which a particular version of the past—the Creole nationalist narrative—was constructed and popularized by a nationalist movement. It then examines the emergence, dissemination, and popularization of a contesting Afro-centric narrative in the post-independence perio…
Transforming Caribbean and Canadian Identity
This paper discusses the attempts by peoples of Caribbean origin resident in Toronto, Canada, to use a version of the transplanted Trinidad Carnival as a mechanism for creating an ethnic identity in a multicultural metropolitan society. The contesting claims to the “ownership” of this cultural product forms the backdrop against which a younger generation of Canadian-born children of Caribbean immigrants also work out their own relationship to Can…
Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth Century Trinidad
The Yoruba and Orisha Worship in Trinidad and British Guinea
The search for the African origins of contemporary socio-cultural forms found in black populations in the South Atlantic region is a well-established scholarly pursuit. Most scholars have argued that certain institutions and ideas brought from Africa were retained over time and survived in more or less recognizable form. It is further argued that specific institutions can be directly linked to the importation of Africans from specific areas in Af…
The Yoruba and Orisha Worship in Trinidad and British Guinea
The search for the African origins of contemporary socio-cultural forms found in black populations in the South Atlantic region is a well-established scholarly pursuit. Most scholars have argued that certain institutions and ideas brought from Africa were retained over time and survived in more or less recognizable form. It is further argued that specific institutions can be directly linked to the importation of Africans from specific areas in Af…
Atlantic childhood and youth in global context
This article is an introduction to the special issue dedicated to exploring the ways in which childhood and youth have been shaped by Atlantic and global dynamics. It explores some of the methodological and theoretical challenges of writing a history of childhood and youth in the Global South. The authors suggest that current theories which address the experiences of young people do not adequately consider the historical specificities of childhoo…
Performing the History
This article examines the popularization of historical ideas and the cultivation of an historical consciousness and imagination in post-independence Trinidad. It focuses on the way in which a particular version of the past—the Creole nationalist narrative—was constructed and popularized by a nationalist movement. It then examines the emergence, dissemination, and popularization of a contesting Afro-centric narrative in the post-independence perio…
Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth Century Trinidad
Reflections on the Children of Shango
Studies of the transfer and development of Yoruba religious practices in the Americas have tended to focus on Candomble in Brazil and Santeria in Cuba. This essay examines the development of the practice of Orisa worship in Trinidad which received the bulk of its Yoruba settlers in the post-emancipation period. It explores the impact of the socio-economic adjustments of a frontier society on the development of this religious practice and identifi…
Transforming Caribbean and Canadian Identity
This paper discusses the attempts by peoples of Caribbean origin resident in Toronto, Canada, to use a version of the transplanted Trinidad Carnival as a mechanism for creating an ethnic identity in a multicultural metropolitan society. The contesting claims to the “ownership” of this cultural product forms the backdrop against which a younger generation of Canadian-born children of Caribbean immigrants also work out their own relationship to Can…
The Yoruba and Orisha Worship in Trinidad and British Guinea
The search for the African origins of contemporary socio-cultural forms found in black populations in the South Atlantic region is a well-established scholarly pursuit. Most scholars have argued that certain institutions and ideas brought from Africa were retained over time and survived in more or less recognizable form. It is further argued that specific institutions can be directly linked to the importation of Africans from specific areas in Af…
Women and Crime in Late Nineteenth Century Trinidad
Transforming Caribbean and Canadian Identity
This paper discusses the attempts by peoples of Caribbean origin resident in Toronto, Canada, to use a version of the transplanted Trinidad Carnival as a mechanism for creating an ethnic identity in a multicultural metropolitan society. The contesting claims to the “ownership” of this cultural product forms the backdrop against which a younger generation of Canadian-born children of Caribbean immigrants also work out their own relationship to Can…
Reflections on the Children of Shango
Studies of the transfer and development of Yoruba religious practices in the Americas have tended to focus on Candomble in Brazil and Santeria in Cuba. This essay examines the development of the practice of Orisa worship in Trinidad which received the bulk of its Yoruba settlers in the post-emancipation period. It explores the impact of the socio-economic adjustments of a frontier society on the development of this religious practice and identifi…
Performing the History
This article examines the popularization of historical ideas and the cultivation of an historical consciousness and imagination in post-independence Trinidad. It focuses on the way in which a particular version of the past—the Creole nationalist narrative—was constructed and popularized by a nationalist movement. It then examines the emergence, dissemination, and popularization of a contesting Afro-centric narrative in the post-independence perio…
Acts of Possession and Symbolic Decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago
It is this awe of the numinous, this elemental privilege of naming the New World which annihilates history in our great poets, an elation common to all of them, whether they are aligned by heritage to Crusoe and Prospero or to Friday and Caliban.-Derek Walcott, “The Muse of History”
Atlantic childhood and youth in global context
This article is an introduction to the special issue dedicated to exploring the ways in which childhood and youth have been shaped by Atlantic and global dynamics. It explores some of the methodological and theoretical challenges of writing a history of childhood and youth in the Global South. The authors suggest that current theories which address the experiences of young people do not adequately consider the historical specificities of childhoo…
Spectacle and the Colonial Imagination
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