How Long to Read Creole Economics

How Long Does it Take to Read Creole Economics?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Creole Economics by Katherine E. Browne

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

What do the trickster Rabbit, slave descendants, off-the-books economies, and French citizens have to do with each other? Plenty, says Katherine Browne in her anthropological investigation of the informal economy in the Caribbean island of Martinique. She begins with a question: Why, after more than three hundred years as colonial subjects of France, did the residents of Martinique opt in 1946 to integrate fully with France, the very nation that had enslaved their ancestors? The author suggests that the choice to decline sovereignty reflects the same clear-headed opportunism that defines successful, crafty, and illicit entrepreneurs who work off the books in Martinique today. Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor. Anchoring her own insights to longer historical and literary views, the author shows how adaptations of cunning have been reinforced since the days of plantation slavery. These adaptations occur, not in spite of French economic and political control, but rather because of it. Powered by the "essential tensions" of maintaining French and Creole identities, the practice of creole economics provides both assertion of and refuge from the difficulties of being dark-skinned and French. This powerful ethnographic study shows how local economic meanings and plural identities help explain work off the books. Like creole language and music, creole economics expresses an irreducibly complex blend of historical, contemporary, and cultural influences.

How long is Creole Economics?

Creole Economics by Katherine E. Browne is 291 pages long, and a total of 73,041 words.

This makes it 98% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Creole Economics Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 39 minutes to read Creole Economics aloud.

What Reading Level is Creole Economics?

Creole Economics is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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