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A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
The history of Haiti throughout the twentieth century has been marked by oppression at the hands of colonial and dictatorial overlords. But set against this "day for the hunter" has been a "day for the prey," a history of resistance, and sometimes of triumph. With keen cultural and historical awareness, Gage Averill shows that Haiti's vibrant and expressive music has been one of the most highly charged instruments in this struggle—one in which power, politics, and resistance are inextricably fused. Averill explores such diverse genres as Haitian jazz, troubadour traditions, Vodou-jazz, konpa, mini-djaz, new generation, and roots music. He examines the complex interaction of music with power in contexts such as honorific rituals, sponsored street celebrations, Carnival, and social movements that span the political spectrum. With firsthand accounts by musicians, photos, song texts, and ethnographic descriptions, this book explores the profound manifestations of power and song in the day-to-day efforts of ordinary Haitians to rise above political repression.
Identity and Ideology in Haiti
Using a structurationist, phenomenological structuralism understanding of practical consciousness constitution as derived from what the author calls Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, this book explores the nature and origins of the contemporary Haitian oppositional protest cry, "the children of Pétion v. the children of Dessalines." Although traditionally viewed within racial terms – the mulatto elites v. the African (black) poor majority – Mocombe suggests that the metaphor, contemporarily, as utilized by the educated black grandon class (middle-class bourgeois blacks) has come to represent Marxist categories for racial-class (nationalistic) struggles on the island of Hai...
LA SANIDAD CONTRA LA SALUD
Este libro es un diario de navegación con el que su autor quiere compartir una dura y apasionante búsqueda que comenzó hace 25 años y que aún continúa. A algunos lectores puede parecerles chocante el título: normalmente identificamos la sanidad con la salud. Sin embargo, la tesis principal del autor es que el modelo médico occidental moderno dominante en la práctica totalidad del planeta ha condicionado decisivamente los sistemas sanitarios hasta el punto de convertirlos en enemigos de la salud. Y otro tanto ha sucedido con los sistemas educativos cuya función principal es fabricar ciudadanos obedientes. Es preciso y urgente promover cambios que contribuyan a una transformación radical de nuestro concepto de salud humana y del planeta, que debería contemplarse desde una mirada global, implicando concepción, embarazo, parto, crianza, desarrollo infantil, alimentación, salud individual, social y ecológica, y actuando desde diversos ángulos: decisiones individuales, cooperación y ayuda mutua, cambios legislativos, sociales y económicos.
