Volcanoes in Human History.
Volcanoes in Human History. By JELLE ZEILINGA DE BOER and DONALD THEODORE SANDERS Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, 295 pp. [pounds sterling]19.95. ISBN 0 691 05081 3 Over the last decade a number of books have appeared that have addressed various aspects of the interface...

WALFREDO DE LOS REYES III: The True Story of a Drumming Legend -- Part 1.
Born in Havana in 1933, Walfredo De Los Reyes III (better known in the United States as Walfredo Reyes, Sr.) invigorated his native city's percussive scene in the 1950s, when "his drum kit included a timbal, instead of one of the tom-toms, and incorporated two tumbadoras on his left...

Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture.
Awakening Spaces: French Caribbean Popular Songs, Music, and Culture. By BRENDA F. BERRIAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xiv + 287 pp. ISBN 0-226-04456-4. Much of the critical attention on French Caribbean culture has focused on the rich literary domain and, with a few notable exceptions...

The astronomical longitude of Paramaribo.
Resumen En 1911 Van Stockum determinó la longitud astronómica de Paramaribo a partir de alturas absolutas de la Luna en combinación con observaciones a estrellas. Se prueba que la longitud astronómica de Paramaribo publicada por Roelofs en su libro Astronomy Applied to Land Surveying se...

Jean Bernabe, Jean-Luc Bonniol, Raphael Confiant, Gerry L'Etang (dir.), Au visiteur lumineux. Des iles creoles aux societes plurielles. Melanges offerts a Jean Benoist.
Jean BERNABÉ, Jean-Luc BONNIOL, Raphaël CONFIANT, Gerry L'ÉTANG (dir.), Au visiteur lumineux. Des îles créoles aux sociétés plurielles. Mélanges offerts à Jean Benoist. Petit-Bourg (Guadeloupe), Ibis Rouge, 2000, 716 p., bibliogr., index. C'est pour saluer Jean Benoist et son oeuvre que 48 auteurs nous livrent dans cet...

Maryse Conde et le theatre antillais.
Maryse Conde et le theatre antillais. By MELISSA L. MCKAY. (Francophone Cultures and Literatures, 36) New York: Peter Lang. 2002. $48.95. xii+ 142 pp. ISBN 0-8204-5262-9. Research in the area of Francophone and Creolophone theatres of the Caribbean is emerging in the English-speaking world, thanks to the...

The Caribbean.
Name -- Date -- Below is a map showing many of the islands that make up the Caribbean. Many of the larger islands are labeled. Study the map. Then read the list of statements. Circle the correct answer to each statement. 1. The...

Ouvrages recus.
Archives de sciences sociales des religions, vol. 48, no. 128, octobre-décembre 2004, 161 p. AUGÉ MARC, Oblivion. Traduction de Les formes de l'oubli, 1998. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2004, 92 p. BEN DRIDI Ibtissem, Le tasfih en Tunisie. Un rituel de protection de la...

Jerome S. Handler. A Guide to Source Materials for the Study of Barbados History, 1627-1834.
Published in association with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the John Carter Brown Library. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. xvi, 205 pp.; $29.95 US (hardcover). ISBN 1 58456 064 9. For a small island Barbados has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention....

Richard Price, Le bagnard et le colonel.
Traduit de l'anglais par Sally Price. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, coll. Ethnologies, 2000, 236 p., bibliogr., illustr. La mémoire est douée pour l'oubli. Il en va de même pour la mémoire collective, et ce tout particulièrement en contexte postcolonial. Le bel ouvrage de Richard Price se...