Hymie Rubenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 174960 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hymie Rubenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hymie |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubenstein |
| SIGNATURE | RUBENSTEIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reefer Madness Caribbean Style
Reefer madness," a spurious psychiatric affliction that was widely promulgated in the United States during the 1930s, is rarely mentioned today as a possible sequela of acute cannabis consumption. Because reefer madness (RM) was questioned and generally dismissed in the West by the 1940s, I was surprised to find that it was still widely accepted as a genuine psycho-pharmacological affliction in the Eastern Caribbean country of St. Vincent and the…
You Na Want Stop
Coping with cannabis in a Caribbean country
Analyzes the dialectic between problem discovery and formulation, ethical considerations, and the public dissemination of research results. Author describes his personal experience of fieldwork, the moral-ethical dilemmas it involved, and the circulation of research findings on cannabis production and consumption in St. Vincent. He became frustrated that his academic publications were only accessible to a tiny portion of St. Vincent's population …
Becoming West Indian
Mirror for the Other
Cultural anthropology's for has always been a mirror mainly by and for the West. A corollary of the preoccupation with writing to ourselves about the Other in the specialized jargon and prose of the discipline is that little effort is made by First World anthropologists to write for and to the Third World Other in a manner that is accessible to them.My aim is to illustrate how the discipline's mandate of cultural can be extended to incorporate an…
Migration, Development and Remittances in Rural Mexico
The argument is that remittances to Mexico from migrants in the US contribute to household prosperity and lessen the balance of payments problem. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the incentives and constraints to development and individual economic well-being in rural Mexico. Examination is made of the financial amount of remittances, the use of remittances, the impact on development of remittances, models of migration, an…
Caribbean Family and Household Organization
The need to further refine the concepts of "family" and "household" in kinship studies is suggested by the organization of domestic group life in a peasant village in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Family life in Leeward Village exhibits a variable and changing relation among family /household activities (sexual regulation, reproduction, economic cooperation, co-residence, and commensality) and the structures required to carry them …
Remittances and Rural Underdevelopment in the English-Speaking Caribbean
As a concomitant of migration in many underdeveloped countries, remittances are said to have such positive effects as reducing balance of payments deficits, accelerating capital formation, financing technical improvements in peasant farming, and increasing rural incomes. This paper examines whether any of these benefits are felt in the rural portions of the English-speaking Caribbean through a survey of (1) the determinants of remittances; (2) th…
Conjugal behaviour and parental role flexibility in an Afro-Caribbean village
Theoretical speculation has sometimes run ahead of the collection of detailed ethnographic data in Afro-Caribbean family research. An investigation of extra-residential mating and the parental roles it creates in Leeward Village, a peasant community in St Vincent, reveals a folk system in which a variety of behaviours are permitted and in which actors are constantly being replaced. The variability and flexibility of this system are the expression…
Economic History and Population Movements in an Eastern Caribbean Valley
The author criticizes current anthropological research in the Caribbean area and attempts to reconstruct the history of a small community on the island of Saint Vincent. Aspects examined include demographic composition and economic factors such as land tenure and the distribution and use of land surrounding the village (ANNOTATION)
Incest, effigy hanging, and biculturation in a West Indian village1
A mock trial followed by the hanging of effigies of the participants in incestuous mating is a ritualized means of punishing sexual deviance in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Equally important, the combination of society-wide norms and institutions with rural, lower-class values and customs is a striking example of biculturation. In particular, hangingsare an example of the creative response of the island lower class to their exclus…
Peasant Exploitation
The Utilization of Arable Land in an Eastern Caribbean Valley
Migration, Development and Remittances in Rural Mexico
The argument is that remittances to Mexico from migrants in the US contribute to household prosperity and lessen the balance of payments problem. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the incentives and constraints to development and individual economic well-being in rural Mexico. Examination is made of the financial amount of remittances, the use of remittances, the impact on development of remittances, models of migration, an…
Remittances and Rural Underdevelopment in the English-Speaking Caribbean
As a concomitant of migration in many underdeveloped countries, remittances are said to have such positive effects as reducing balance of payments deficits, accelerating capital formation, financing technical improvements in peasant farming, and increasing rural incomes. This paper examines whether any of these benefits are felt in the rural portions of the English-speaking Caribbean through a survey of (1) the determinants of remittances; (2) th…
Incest, effigy hanging, and biculturation in a West Indian village1
A mock trial followed by the hanging of effigies of the participants in incestuous mating is a ritualized means of punishing sexual deviance in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Equally important, the combination of society-wide norms and institutions with rural, lower-class values and customs is a striking example of biculturation. In particular, hangingsare an example of the creative response of the island lower class to their exclus…
The Utilization of Arable Land in an Eastern Caribbean Valley
Conjugal behaviour and parental role flexibility in an Afro-Caribbean village
Theoretical speculation has sometimes run ahead of the collection of detailed ethnographic data in Afro-Caribbean family research. An investigation of extra-residential mating and the parental roles it creates in Leeward Village, a peasant community in St Vincent, reveals a folk system in which a variety of behaviours are permitted and in which actors are constantly being replaced. The variability and flexibility of this system are the expression…
Reefer Madness Caribbean Style
Reefer madness," a spurious psychiatric affliction that was widely promulgated in the United States during the 1930s, is rarely mentioned today as a possible sequela of acute cannabis consumption. Because reefer madness (RM) was questioned and generally dismissed in the West by the 1940s, I was surprised to find that it was still widely accepted as a genuine psycho-pharmacological affliction in the Eastern Caribbean country of St. Vincent and the…
Caribbean Family and Household Organization
The need to further refine the concepts of "family" and "household" in kinship studies is suggested by the organization of domestic group life in a peasant village in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Family life in Leeward Village exhibits a variable and changing relation among family /household activities (sexual regulation, reproduction, economic cooperation, co-residence, and commensality) and the structures required to carry them …
Peasant Exploitation
Economic History and Population Movements in an Eastern Caribbean Valley
The author criticizes current anthropological research in the Caribbean area and attempts to reconstruct the history of a small community on the island of Saint Vincent. Aspects examined include demographic composition and economic factors such as land tenure and the distribution and use of land surrounding the village (ANNOTATION)
Peasant Exploitation
The Utilization of Arable Land in an Eastern Caribbean Valley
Incest, effigy hanging, and biculturation in a West Indian village1
A mock trial followed by the hanging of effigies of the participants in incestuous mating is a ritualized means of punishing sexual deviance in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Equally important, the combination of society-wide norms and institutions with rural, lower-class values and customs is a striking example of biculturation. In particular, hangingsare an example of the creative response of the island lower class to their exclus…
Economic History and Population Movements in an Eastern Caribbean Valley
The author criticizes current anthropological research in the Caribbean area and attempts to reconstruct the history of a small community on the island of Saint Vincent. Aspects examined include demographic composition and economic factors such as land tenure and the distribution and use of land surrounding the village (ANNOTATION)
Conjugal behaviour and parental role flexibility in an Afro-Caribbean village
Theoretical speculation has sometimes run ahead of the collection of detailed ethnographic data in Afro-Caribbean family research. An investigation of extra-residential mating and the parental roles it creates in Leeward Village, a peasant community in St Vincent, reveals a folk system in which a variety of behaviours are permitted and in which actors are constantly being replaced. The variability and flexibility of this system are the expression…
Caribbean Family and Household Organization
The need to further refine the concepts of "family" and "household" in kinship studies is suggested by the organization of domestic group life in a peasant village in the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent. Family life in Leeward Village exhibits a variable and changing relation among family /household activities (sexual regulation, reproduction, economic cooperation, co-residence, and commensality) and the structures required to carry them …
Remittances and Rural Underdevelopment in the English-Speaking Caribbean
As a concomitant of migration in many underdeveloped countries, remittances are said to have such positive effects as reducing balance of payments deficits, accelerating capital formation, financing technical improvements in peasant farming, and increasing rural incomes. This paper examines whether any of these benefits are felt in the rural portions of the English-speaking Caribbean through a survey of (1) the determinants of remittances; (2) th…
Migration, Development and Remittances in Rural Mexico
The argument is that remittances to Mexico from migrants in the US contribute to household prosperity and lessen the balance of payments problem. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the incentives and constraints to development and individual economic well-being in rural Mexico. Examination is made of the financial amount of remittances, the use of remittances, the impact on development of remittances, models of migration, an…
Becoming West Indian
Mirror for the Other
Cultural anthropology's for has always been a mirror mainly by and for the West. A corollary of the preoccupation with writing to ourselves about the Other in the specialized jargon and prose of the discipline is that little effort is made by First World anthropologists to write for and to the Third World Other in a manner that is accessible to them.My aim is to illustrate how the discipline's mandate of cultural can be extended to incorporate an…
You Na Want Stop
Coping with cannabis in a Caribbean country
Analyzes the dialectic between problem discovery and formulation, ethical considerations, and the public dissemination of research results. Author describes his personal experience of fieldwork, the moral-ethical dilemmas it involved, and the circulation of research findings on cannabis production and consumption in St. Vincent. He became frustrated that his academic publications were only accessible to a tiny portion of St. Vincent's population …
Reefer Madness Caribbean Style
Reefer madness," a spurious psychiatric affliction that was widely promulgated in the United States during the 1930s, is rarely mentioned today as a possible sequela of acute cannabis consumption. Because reefer madness (RM) was questioned and generally dismissed in the West by the 1940s, I was surprised to find that it was still widely accepted as a genuine psycho-pharmacological affliction in the Eastern Caribbean country of St. Vincent and the…
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works)