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Specimen-based taxonomic research is essential for understanding diversity and setting management frameworks for threatened mammal faunas, and ancient DNA techniques are increasingly used to extract information from taxonomically relevant historical specimens. The largest survivors of the depleted Caribbean mammal fauna are hutias in the genus Capromys , which is usually interpreted as containing a single species, C. pilorides. Previous studies have demonstrated genetic differentiation of Capromys populations across Cuba, but infrageneric species diversity and nomenclature remain unclear. We conducted ancient DNA analysis of historical Capromys samples using cytochrome b and complete mitogenome data sets, and including the 19th-century holotypes of 2 species now considered synonyms, C. fournieri and C. geayi. Our analyses identify distinct western and central/eastern Capromys clades that diverged 1.75 Mya based upon mitogenome data. These clades are separated by the Havana–Matanzas Channel, which represented a barrier to dispersal throughout the Neogene–Quaternary. Divergence date comparisons with other hutia species provide support for interpreting divergence between Capromys populations as species-level differentiation. Although we were unable to yield amplifiable DNA from the C. fournieri holotype, our analyses confidently assign the C. geayi holotype to the western Capromys clade. We therefore recognize 2 extant Capromys species: C. geayi (western Cuba) and C. pilorides (central/eastern Cuba and Cayman Islands). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1742, HMS Tyger, a 95-year-old, 50-gun ship-of-the-line, was the first of three British men-of-war to sink in the Florida Keys during the War of Jenkin's Ear. Lost while menacing Spanish shipping transiting the Straits of Florida, Tyger and its 300 crew ran aground and were marooned for 66 days in what is now Dry Tortugas National Park in the United States. One site identified and partially documented by members of the U.S. National Park Services Submerged Cultural Resource Unit (NPS SCRU) in the mid-1990s was only tentatively identified as Tyger based on preliminary evidence. This paper presents new findings based on recent historical and archaeological research to prove that a foreign warship perished within what would become one of the most isolated National Parks in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Specialized international organizations discuss museology on an ongoing basis. These institutions usually develop various recommendations that, despite not binding, are considered soft law norms since they influence the generation or modification of the internal law of the countries. However, the influence of these soft law norms will depend on how permeable the legal-administrative systems are. For this reason, this paper proposes to analyze the permeability of the countries of Latin America and The Caribean to global trends regarding museums based on the evaluation of four variables that reconstruct the degree of implementation of the recommendations issued by specialized international organizations. A traffic light methodology is adopted with a three-level assessment scale that describes the status of each country. The results show that the region’s countries present very different situations regarding the situation of their museums in the national system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the democratic political praxes and contestations developed by trade unions in relations with the postcolonial state in both the Global North and South. Our work is informed by the scholarship of Richard Iton on the postcolonial duppy state and notions of the colonial past haunting the postcolonial present through the rearticulation of racialized, imperial labor regimes and relations in a postcolonial context. We engage with Trinidad's Oilfields Workers Trade Union and the British National Union of Seamen to explore how this "haunting" was both contested and modulated by the labor activism of unions in both the former colony and metropole during the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization. Empirically, we show how unionized workers sought to expand and entrench democratic cultures in opposition to the continued racialization of labor and the uneven power relations existent between labor, the state, and capital. This article responds to recent calls in labor geography to broaden the sites and subjects of study beyond workers in the Global North and introduces a study of the postcolonial state to claims to democratic politics in labor–state relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyses the role played by privateer companies in the Caribbean Sea in the 18th century. Through the actions of their companies, we can appreciate the articulation of regional Caribbean trade in a scenario of imperial struggles and conflicts for the control of American trade. We analyze Spanish corsair actions after the decline of the Commercial Monopoly following the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Black women who seek and win elected office are changing the political landscape in the Americas. In Latin America, this shift became widely recognized when Epsy Campbell Barr became the first Black woman vice president in Costa Rica in 2018. Her election builds on the work of three generations of women whose engagement in formal politics is rooted in their intertwined identities as Black, women, and of West Indian descent. By recovering a racialized, gendered, and ethnicized lineage of community activism, relationships, and networking—which I call “Little’s links” to honor the legacy of the writer and activist Eulalia Bernard Little—I argue that in Costa Rica, Caribbean identity and Black motherhood politics have influenced Black women’s engagement in national politics. This account of these other (and mothers’) political routes to state power for Afro-Caribbean women in Costa Rica complements current explanations of Black women’s participation in national politics elsewhere.

Introduction: The rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) inhabits oceanic waters of tropical latitudes and exhibits philopatry in some oceanic islands. However, the species has been observed in shallow coastal waters in a few areas. Particularly in Central America, the rough-toothed dolphin has been reported by occasional records and strandings. For instance, the first confirmed record of this species in the Panama's Caribbean was on July 17, 2012, in a coastal region of the Chiriquí Lagoon during a bottlenose dolphin monitoring survey. Similarly, the first rough-toothed dolphin mass stranding reported for the Pacific of Panama was on April 20, 2016, at the Ostional Beach, where 60 dolphins stranded and ten died. These sightings and events offered a valuable opportunity to obtain samples to conduct genetic studies, which are scarce in the region. Objective: In this study, we present the first assessment of genetic diversity for rough-toothed dolphins based on mitochondrial DNA Control Region (mtDNA-CR) in the Panamanian Pacific and the Wider Caribbean. Methods: Samples were collected in Colombia (N=5), Panama (N-Caribbean=1, N-Pacific=9), and Puerto Rico (N=3) from free-ranging and stranded individuals. DNA was extracted from each sample, and a mtDNA segment of around 534 to 748 bp was amplified through the PCR reaction. The obtained sequences were compared with rough-toothed dolphin haplotypes previously published in NCBI (N=70), from the Atlantic, Indian, and the Pacific Oceans. Results: Our findings showed significant population structure among ocean basins (strong differentiation with ΦST data), and high genetic diversity within each phylogroup. Only the Atlantic Ocean showed high genetic differentiation within the basin, detecting three phylogroups: the Caribbean, northern, and southern Atlantic. Conclusions: These findings support previous genetic studies that indicate high levels of population structure among ocean basins, although this species seems to be widely dispersed. However, samples from Panama and the Caribbean appear to show connectivity between highly differentiated Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Therefore, our results highlight the need for more research to assess the rough-toothed dolphin genetic and population status in Central America, as the piece of the puzzle needed to clarify its taxonomy and genetic differentiation worldwide. This information is needed due to the rough-toothed dolphin IUCN categorization as "Least Concern" and its classification into appendix II according to CITES. While individuals are potentially threatened by incidental fishing, no management units are currently used to conserve this species despite its high genetic differentiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Latin America and the Caribbean are one of the most unequal regions in the world, with high levels of poverty and reduced state capacity to solve structural problems. In this paper, we examined the existence of a β-convergence process between countries (i.e., reduction of disparities) in terms of energy poverty indicators. For this, we construct an annual panel of countries for the last six decades and for thirteen energy poverty indicators covering three dimensions (access, quality, and affordability). The results indicate that a convergence process has taken place between countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, which includes all the dimensions analyzed (i.e., the countries of the region have become more similar in terms of energy poverty over time). Context-specific recommendations that emerge from the findings aim at promoting greater adoption of renewable energy, reducing delays in obtaining an electricity connection, and cutting subsidies for natural gas and oil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cuban biodiversity is characterized by high species richness and endemism; however, free-living flatworms have been neglected in studies of the fauna of the archipelago. These animals constitute an essential component of marine and freshwater ecosystems as top predators and secondary producers. In this contribution, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of turbellarian diversity in Cuba based on a long-term sampling effort in marine, brackish, freshwater and terrestrial environments. We used observed and estimated species richness as indicators of alpha diversity. As a result, we have collected, for the first time, 279 species in Cuba, including 189 species of rhabdocoels, 33 species of polyclads, 21 species of macrostomorphs, 14 species of proseriates, 12 species of prolecithophorans, seven species of triclads and one representative each of Prorhynchida, Gnosonesimida and Bothrioplanida. At least 184 species (67%) are new to science. Fifty of these species have been recorded in published journal contributions. The remainder are pending formal identification and/or description. We demonstrate the turbellarian fauna of Cuba to be one of high diversity and endemism. Estimated species richness is much higher than that observed, exemplifying the taxonomic impediments and stressing the need for more intense sampling campaigns in the archipelago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The basic argument of this article is that the Caribbean author, Derek Walcott, illuminates how the concept of "the city" can be used to enable a geopolitical system of centralized power seated in culturally, politically, and economically significant nodes (i.e., "cities"). In short, following Walcott, the concept of "the city" at times serves as a cultural technology to justify colonization, the monopolization of political power, and the domination of so-called peripheral sites. "The city" is not always a neutral descriptor of a given geographical locus, but instead can be a cultural technology of power insofar as it is at times a concept employed in order to garner control over an extended territory from a socio-political center. To demonstrate this thesis, I engage in a close reading of Derek Walcott's theoretical essays and epic poem, Omeros (1990). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Arrival of the cinematograph in the exotic Caribbean" by Carlos López Lizarazo analyzes the impact of cinema in the Caribbean region. It examines the arrival of the cinematograph in different Caribbean countries and its influence on the local film industry. Topics such as cultural identity, film production, and cultural exchanges between Cartagena, Veracruz, and Havana are explored. The article provides a comparative view of the film industry in the Caribbean and highlights the importance of cinema in the construction of national identity. [Extracted from the article]

The essay analyzes the theoretical conceptualization of the Caribbean through three fundamental approaches: 1) The colonial historical perspective, which begins with the arrival of the conquerors to the Antilles, which had as a consequence negative modification in the ways of life of the autochthonous populations, the exploitation of nature, the slave trade, among other situations that threaten the human condition and dignity. 2) The philosophical and emancipatory perspective, where the main problems when defining Caribbean philosophy are highlighted, due to academic factors, geographical and linguistic problems and the lack of interest of the conquerors in the cultural evolution of the region (Valdés, 2020). In addition, it points out the role of philosophy in the progress of independent thought, characterized by humanistic and subversive ideals, materialized in the Haitian Revolution and, later, in the independence of Cuba. 3) It explores how, despite a diverse colonial past, the Caribbean maintains its roots in its identity, becoming a diverse, and half-blood culture that is integrated into the struggles for the recognition of what is proper to being American. The method used is the hermeneutic-documentary. It concludes on the importance of the Caribbean as a pluriversal strategic space, with a common objective of struggle: the emancipation of modern / colonial power, manifested in hegemonic globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Black women who seek and win elected office are changing the political landscape in the Americas. In Latin America, this shift became widely recognized when Epsy Campbell Barr became the first Black woman vice president in Costa Rica in 2018. Her election builds on the work of three generations of women whose engagement in formal politics is rooted in their intertwined identities as Black, women, and of West Indian descent. By recovering a racialized, gendered, and ethnicized lineage of community activism, relationships, and networking—which I call “Little’s links” to honor the legacy of the writer and activist Eulalia Bernard Little—I argue that in Costa Rica, Caribbean identity and Black motherhood politics have influenced Black women’s engagement in national politics. This account of these other (and mothers’) political routes to state power for Afro-Caribbean women in Costa Rica complements current explanations of Black women’s participation in national politics elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Little is known about feeding and eating disorders (FED) in the community of Latino origin in the Caribbean. The purpose of this study is to identify the published research on the FED with the Spanish-speaking Latino population from the Caribbean islands. The narrative systemic review was focused on Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. For the narrative systematic review, we used the Covidence program in eight databases (i.e., PubMed, Scopus, Scielo, LILACS, Global Health, CINAHL, Psych Info, REDIB) using the Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analyses-PRISMA guidelines. We used the keywords in both languages Spanish and English (i.e., eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, disordered eating), combined with keywords for the identification of the Caribbean geographic area (i.e., Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Latinos, Latinas, Latinxs) for the literature search. Out of 398 articles, 13 articles were included in the final review (Cuba n=4; Puerto Rico n=8; combined Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, n=1). Published topics include prevalence of FED in youth, college students, and gay men, and body image, bigorexia, scale development for orthorexia, genetic factors, and the role of the family in the treatment of FED. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The denunciation of imperialist domination and the social ills derived from it developed in various ways. The objective is to argue the cultural resistance-anti-imperialism dialectic in the Caribbean scenario of the first half of the 20th century, taking as reference the poetry of Aimé Césaire, Jacques Roumain and Nicolás Guillén. The logical-historical method, as well as induction and deduction, documentary analysis and critical review together with the transdisciplinary perspective allowed the approach of the problemraised in its internal and external connections. This poetry is under stood as a testimony of a reality marked by imperialist exploitation, racial discrimination and social exclusion, as well as the resolution to transform it in favor of the oppressed, which accounts for the cultural resistance-anti-imperialism dialectic. In this way, it is proposed as a reference foreman cipatory purposes in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay addresses Luis Ramiro Beltrán, Frantz Fanon, and Stuart Hall's contribution to social communication studies from a Caribbean setting. The scenario that Beltrán found in Puerto Rico and the theoretical contributions of Fanon and Hall in their reflection on the colonization and decolonization processes were examined. Methodologically, we worked from a contextualization of the period in which Luis Ramiro Beltrán lived in Puerto Rico and Hall's reading of Fanon's work in his analysis and theorization of the Caribbean colonial/decolonial issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rock art played vital roles within Caribbean Indigenous cultures. Designs on rock surfaces would have been a critical element in the thought, practice and performance of the area's spiritual life, as well as underpinning interconnected activities with the sociopolitical and economic realms. Rock art executed at stationary locations enjoys a particular advantage as a topic of investigation since its permanence at the same location within the physical environment, offers a tangible link between its production and subsequent functions within Antillean societies. Research concerning the nature of the images and their societal implications is longstanding, covering a wide range of issues as the following discussion outlines. After key data such as the types and locations of rock art are presented, certain investigative topics are examined involving dating, thematic or area studies, rock art and sociopolitical development, and rock art as art produced by artists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a perspective on the lives of indigenous women in the context of the European conquest and colonization of the Caribbean, specifically on the island of Hispaniola. It integrates ethnohistorical information, published primary sources, secondary sources and results of archaeological research. The text articulates a general vision, which summarizes scattered and sometimes little-known data, reflecting the action of dominance over women, the complexity of the female experience in this universe, and also their capacities to face change and transmit the indigenous cultural legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Death is not the end, but rather a beginning. Drawing on historical sources and ethnographic fieldwork with the Wayana Indigenous People of French Guiana, this essay explores the interrelationships embodied during mortuary practices and personal treatment of the dead. This research emerged from questions raised during the archaeological excavations at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe, and, in turn, contributes to the study of burial practices in Caribbean archaeology. More broadly, an understanding of Wayana mortuary practices, illustrated with exceptional photographs and indigenous narratives, is to further the conceptualization of the complexity, wide variety and individualization of personal treatment of the dead, and the interrelationships with ancestors and other social others in Guiana, Amazonia, and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The European Union (EU) intends to become an actor in international ocean governance. With this in mind, it is developing specific and more strategic relations with Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Indeed, the existence of the EU’s Outermost Regions and Overseas Countries and Territories also implies, beyond history and culture, a geographical proximity between the EU and most SIDS. The EU strategy for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific would reinforce this trend. In order to critically assess these relationships, this article focuses on their geopolitical, trade, and cooperation dimensions, mainly from a geo-legal perspective. The main questions being asked focus on the importance of the SIDS for the EU, and what the EU can offer to assist SIDS in developing their capacities and promote regional cooperation in the challenging current context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how the practice of international election observation in the Commonwealth Caribbean was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many countries were faced with the decision on whether to conduct or delay elections during the pandemic. Between March 2020 and June 2022, 10 out of 12 Commonwealth Caribbean countries held elections. All these countries, except for Barbados, have had their elections observed by at least one regional or international organization during the last two decades. The closure of borders and the various quarantine requirements had practical implications for maintaining this trend during the pandemic. Most countries that regularly invite international observers did not have their pandemic held elections observed. This paper considers the reasons for the absence of observers in some elections and explores the adjustments observer groups have had to make during the last two years. The discussion also explores how Caribbean countries were able to indicate their commitment to holding free and fair elections in the absence of observers. For the countries that had observers, the discussion examines how these missions navigated issues of cost, shorter invitation periods, challenges in international travel, the recruitment of suitable observers and local pandemic protocols and conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Caribbean states have been experiencing several challenges to economic growth and development, such as the loss of preferential market access and reduction in US aid. As a result, they have been trying to reposition themselves in the changing international relations sphere by reorienting their foreign policy strategies. This article posits that Caribbean states have been placing more emphasis on diversifying their relationships with non-Western powers, such as Japan, as an economic adjustment strategy. In particular, the article examines how Caribbean states have been pursuing “unorthodox” foreign policies due to their limited resource base. As a result, they have been creatively using their value-based resources such as votes and quality advocacy in international fora, in exchange for economic assistance from Japan. In the context of small states in the international system, the article argues that having acknowledged their vulnerabilities due to their smallness, Caribbean states have shown resilience and resourcefulness in crafting these strategies as they seek to reposition themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the emergence of ideas about corporeal hechos [facts] in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Caribbean. The establishment of facts around the human flesh in the early modern Caribbean and their circulation occurred in multiple social and cultural spaces but was prominent in the world of slave trading. This development depended on the creation of categories for the fixation of the flesh in the public discourse that appeared in governmental, judicial, and private records in locales in Europe and the Americas. At the same time, the development of this Caribbean tradition of facts required the circulation of these ideas and categories as inscribed in procedures of tacit knowledge related to bodies, practices that were evident in the work of slave-trading communities in the region. The creation of bodily facts emerged, in the end, from techniques that inscribed human bodies in accounts and transactions of all sorts moving across the Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do algorithms shape the experience of facts? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Limón, Costa Rica, this paper explores the role of algorithms in mediating three kinds of “factishes”: data truths, affective facts, and mystic revelations. The article unfolds as a series of stories that capture the interactions between Costa Ricans and the algorithms of social media platforms. To analyze these relationships, we develop a “ventriloquist” ethnographic approach that gives voice to algorithms by interpreting extant literature and the experiences of our interlocutors. We argue that algorithms enable individuals to navigate composite realities and assume multiple positions within them rather than merely conflating truth and fiction or strictly separating them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to literary critic Darko Suvin, science fiction demonstrates a “supposedly factual” approach to imagining new worlds. In Latin America, however, the factual basis of lived experience from which such fictions are crafted has not always been taken as a given. This essay shows how contemporary Latin American science fiction makes use of the tensions derived from the encounter between the pliable nature of fact and the supposed rigor of cognitive logic through an analysis of two contemporary texts from the Hispanophone Caribbean: Puerto Rican writer Pedro Cabiya’s (1971) novel Malas hierbas (2010) and Cuban director Arturo Infante’s (1977) film El viaje extraordinario de Celeste García (2018). A fragmented zombie tale whose narrator may or may not be a zombie, Malas hierbas explores the science of zombification even as it draws upon both folklore and the corpus of zombie literature and film. El viaje extraordinario engages the genre conventions of romantic comedy and the Cuban emigration film, using the familiar landscape of these genres in the story of a group of Cubans who are invited to visit a distant planet. Cabiya’s and Infante’s texts keep the reader or spectator suspended in the liminal zone where truth is an open-ended series of multiple possibilities. As they reveal the constructed nature of facts and the narratives that support them, these texts illuminate the ways in which the possibilities around us are already the work of constructed fictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Frequency of codes underpinning governance themes Footnotes 1 B Article impact statement b : Understanding perceived governance constraints can inform improved governance for effective conservation. Using an interactive governance approach to map respondents' narratives of governance challenges against the different orders of governance, our findings highlighted an overall pattern weighted toward first- and second-order governance and the (predominantly social) context of the system to be governed. Keywords: Caribbean; environmental governance; governability; interactive governance; perceptions; Caribe; gobernanza ambiental; gobernanza interactiva; gobernabilidad; percepciones; ; ; ; EN Caribbean environmental governance governability interactive governance perceptions Caribe gobernanza ambiental gobernanza interactiva gobernabilidad percepciones 1 14 14 10/04/22 20221001 NES 221001 INTRODUCTION The plight of coral reefs globally is a long-standing concern in environmental science and conservation research. [Extracted from the article]

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Keywords: Caribbean; Caribbean anthropology; African-Caribbean culture; Caribbean migration; Caribe; antropología del Caribe; cultura africano-caribeña; migración del Caribe; Karayib; antwopoloji Karayib; kilti afriken-antiyè; migrasyon antiyè EN Caribbean Caribbean anthropology African-Caribbean culture Caribbean migration Caribe antropología del Caribe cultura africano-caribeña migración del Caribe Karayib antwopoloji Karayib kilti afriken-antiyè migrasyon antiyè 437 440 4 10/04/22 20220901 NES 220901 When I began to prepare for fieldwork in the Caribbean during the early 1970s as a PhD student at the University of Minnesota, anthropological studies of the Caribbean were undergoing major changes that transformed the field in significant ways. Moreover, by anchoring my research methodologically and theoretically in the Caribbean rather than in particular migration destinations, my aim has been to contribute primarily to Caribbean(ist) anthropology and not just to migration studies as they may be defined by the research agendas of the receiving countries. [Extracted from the article]

From the creation of two orthographies - Papiamentu (phonological) and Papiamento (etymological) - to the research that is dedicated to its syntactical attributes, Papiamentu/o is one of the few Caribbean Creoles to get attention within linguistics. First, Papiamentu/o, the language spoken in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (ABC islands), is one of only two Creoles in the Caribbean with an official status (the other being Haitian Kreyòl). Keywords: Dutch Caribbean; Papiamento; Papiamentu; Caribbean; Creole languages; Aruba; Curaçao; Caribe holandés; papiamento; papiamentu; Caribe; lenguas criollas; Curazao; Antiy Nelandèz; Antiy EN Dutch Caribbean Papiamento Papiamentu Caribbean Creole languages Aruba Curaçao Caribe holandés papiamento papiamentu Caribe lenguas criollas Curazao Antiy Nelandèz Antiy 470 477 8 10/04/22 20220901 NES 220901 As a child, I used to think Aruba and Curaçao were on a different planet. In the ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao), the relationship between Papiamentu/o and Dutch is complicated, yet in certain aspects, Papiamentu/o does not have a diminished presence. [Extracted from the article]

Caribbeanist anthropology where I see such trendsetting taking place: climate crises, reparations/repair, and the location of Caribbean anthropology. Moreover, the work like Thomas' and Lewis' that is directly focused on reparations may not be voluminous in Caribbeanist anthropology but it is groundbreaking in the subfield. Keywords: Caribbean; Caribbean anthropology; climate crises; reparations; Caribe; antropología del Caribe; crisis climática; indemnizaciones; Karayib; antwopoloji Karayib; kriz klimatik; dedonmajman EN Caribbean Caribbean anthropology climate crises reparations Caribe antropología del Caribe crisis climática indemnizaciones Karayib antwopoloji Karayib kriz klimatik dedonmajman 465 469 5 10/04/22 20220901 NES 220901 Almost twenty years ago, Deborah Thomas and I (Slocum and Thomas 2003) wrote "Rethinking Global and Area Studies: Insights from Caribbean Anthropology" about the ways that anthropological queries within Caribbean Studies - as an area study field - are fruitful for the discipline's very early twenty-first-century queries relative to global studies and global-local intersections. Caribbean anthropologists are also helping us pursue larger questions around what constitutes the Caribbean and Caribbeanist anthropology. [Extracted from the article]