Cover Transatlantic Caribbean; Contents; Introduction; From "Survival" to "Dialogue": Analytic Tropes in the Study of African-Diaspora Cultural History; On Talking Past Each Other, Productively: Anthropology and the Black Atlantic, Twenty Years On; Trans-Atlantic Educational Crossroads: Experiences of Mozambican Students in Cuba; Turning Back to the Turning Point: The Day of Guanahani in 1492 in Global Perspective; Theorizing Dominican Modernity: The Crossroads of "Revolution" on Hispaniola; Migration Flows and the Politics of Exclusion in the French Antilles. Staging the Caribbean: Dialogues on Diasporic Antillean Music and Dance in Paris during the Jazz AgeRasta in Revolution: The Rastafari Movement in Socialist Cuba; A Transatlantic Restoration of Religion: On the Re-construction of Yoruba and Lúkúmí in Cuban Santería; Petrodollar, Bolivarianism, and the Re-Yorubanization of Santería in Chávez's Socialist Venezuela; CaribBerlin: Multiple Paths in the Religious Life of a German Oricha Priest. Processes of Cultural Transfer in 19th-Century Literature: The Caribbean within the Context of the Cultural Radiance of Europe, exemplified by France and Spain (1789-1886)Scattered Seeds: Transnational Origins of the Decolonization Movement in Jamaica; Transient Histories: Memory and Movements Within the 19th Century Caribbean; Contributors.
"Transatlantic Caribbean" widens the scope of research on the Caribbean by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin America, Europe and Africa and by investigating long-term exchanges of people, practices and ideas. Based on innovative approaches and rich empirical research from anthropology, history and literary studies the contributions discuss border crossings, south-south relations and diasporas in the areas of popular culture, religion, historical memory as well as national and transnational social and political movements. These perspectives enrich the theore.