A Meditation on Cazabon's East Indian Group

Using concepts derived from the field of postcolonial studies, as well as insights gleaned from three decades of ethnographic fieldwork among the East Indians of Trinidad, the author, an anthropologist, analyzes East Indian Group, a watercolor by the 19th‐century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazab...

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Published in:Anthropology and humanism 2004-06, Vol.29 (1), p.34-44
Main Author: Angrosino, Michael V.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Using concepts derived from the field of postcolonial studies, as well as insights gleaned from three decades of ethnographic fieldwork among the East Indians of Trinidad, the author, an anthropologist, analyzes East Indian Group, a watercolor by the 19th‐century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon. The painting is seen as a textual example of a reflexive and resistant representation of the colonial Other.
ISSN:1559-9167
1548-1409
DOI:10.1525/anhu.2004.29.1.34