LEADER 04492nam 22006374a 450 001 9910816280303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-79734-6 024 7 $a10.7560/702929 035 $a(CKB)1000000000454127 035 $a(OCoLC)560319161 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10185714 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000132254 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129358 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000132254 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10028843 035 $a(PQKB)11430322 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443023 035 $a(OCoLC)61593735 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443023 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10185714 035 $a(DE-B1597)588788 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808311 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797345 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000454127 100 $a20040109d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreole economics $eCaribbean cunning under the French flag /$fKatherine E. Browne ; line drawings by Rod Salter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (293 p.) 300 $a"A portion of this work previously appeared as "Creole Economics and the DAbrouillard: From Slave-Based Adaptations to the Informal . . ." in Ethnohistory, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 373-403." 311 $a0-292-70292-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart one: Groundings -- $tChapter 1 Elements -- $tChapter 2 Social Histories: The Weight of France in Martinique -- $tPart two: Frameworks -- $tChapter 3 Cultural Economies: Relating Social Values to Economic Theory in Martinique -- $tChapter 4 Afro-Caribbean Identities: Postcolonial Tensions and Martinique?s Creole Débrouillard -- $tPart three: Practices -- $tChapter 5 Adaptations of Cunning: The Changing Forms of Débrouillardism -- $tChapter 6 Opportunism by Class: The Profit and Status of Undeclared Work -- $tChapter 7 Women, Men, and Economic Practice: Different Routes to Autonomy and Status -- $tEpilogue Imagining the Future of Creole Economics -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary -- $tReferences Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aInformal sector (Economics)$zMartinique 606 $aWomen$zMartinique$xEconomic conditions 607 $aMartinique$xEconomic conditions$y1918- 615 0$aInformal sector (Economics) 615 0$aWomen$xEconomic conditions. 676 $a330 700 $aBrowne$b Katherine E.$f1953-$01722101 701 $aSalter$b Rod$01722102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816280303321 996 $aCreole economics$94122195 997 $aUNINA