Creole Economics: Caribbean Cunning Under the French Flag

by Katherine E. Browne

Book Overview

What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705816
• ISBN13: 9780292705814
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.9"