Dutch and Caribbean Anthropologies
PapiamentU is recognized as an official language of which 2 of ABC islands?
Bonaire and Curaçao
What does human-ing mean in Guadeloupe and Granger’s manifesto?
Human-ing rejects the idea of the human as separate from the rest of life and asks how people live through relation, care, sound, and embodiment.
What is the central critique of respectable liberal whiteness in the article by Cankaya & Mepschen?
The article’s key point is not that racism belongs to “bad” or uneducated people, but that liberal, progressive, and middle-class people also reproduce racial hierarchy.
What is the mati work?
The mati work refers to an Afro-Surinamese institution in which women have sexual relations with women and men, consecutively or simultaneously.
What happened on 10-10-10 in Curaçao?
Curaçao became an autonomous “country” within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on October 10, 2010.
What are the 3 municipalities of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean?
Saba, Statia and Bonaire
What is uptown environmentalism?
Environmentalism focused on green issues, such as biodiversity, wildlife and marine environments, with no or little attention to urban environmental issues
What does makamba mean in the documentary?
Dutch white people
How does Wekker challenge Euro-American sexual identity categories?
Juliette’s sexuality is described through agency, pleasure, self-worth, and behavior rather than through a fixed lesbian identity.
Why was Trinta di Mei more than an ordinary labor strike?
Trinta di Mei began as a labor conflict but became a broader struggle over recognition, respect, race, class, and colonial hierarchy.
Why is “the Dutch Caribbean” politically misleading as a single category?
The Dutch Caribbean is not one constitutional unit. Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are autonomous countries within the Kingdom, while Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius are special municipalities of the Netherlands.
Name a connection between Rivke Jaffe's text and Juny Martina
Negropont- Shell
What do Çankaya and Mepschen mean by liberal peripheralisation of racism?
Liberal peripheralisation of racism means placing racism at the margins, especially among the white working class, rather than in respectable liberal middle-class spaces.
Why does the introduction of my book refuse English pronouns as the main framework for theorizing mariku?
To theorize mariku through English pronouns restricts its fluidity within a binary register and recenters Euro-U.S. concepts of sexuality and gender.
What does Bonilla mean by treating sovereignty as a categorical problem?
sovereignty itself is a problem, not only the lack of sovereignty. Independence, a flag, or a nation-state does not guarantee social transformation.
What paradox do Anton Blok and Jeremy Boissevain name about Dutch Anthropology (research ON the Netherlands)?
Dutch anthropology has had a modest international role despite the Netherlands having a large empire and important anthropologists.
What is I-and-I?
I-and-I replaces “I,” “you,” “we,” and “they” to reject separability and individualism.
In Hollandse Maatjes: What contradiction appears in Dutch claims about adaptation in Curaçao?
Several Dutch speakers in the transcript claim they “adapt,” while still speaking Dutch, socializing mostly with Dutch people, and living in Dutch-oriented spaces.
What method does Wekker use to read Juliette’s life history?
Wekker treats oral history as a co-produced narrative shaped by Juliette’s self-presentation, the interview encounter, and the researcher’s position.
How does Allen describe identity in Curaçao?
Allen argues that Curaçaoan identity is flexible and situational. People shift between Curaçaoan, Dutch-European, Antillean, Caribbean, and Latin American identifications.
Why does the course not treat “the Netherlands” as only European?
The course begins from the idea that the Netherlands itself is shaped by Caribbean histories, migration, and creolization.
Why are music and instruments central to Trans-Caribbean thought?
Tambú, tumba, gaita, aguinaldo, simadan, seu, benta, cachu, and chapi become tools for thinking relation between humans, animals, plants, soil, water, and spirits.
What do Çankaya and Mepschen argue anthropologists should study in terms of racialization?
Çankaya and Mepschen argue for studying the “doing” of whiteness.
What does the volcano symbolize in Arion’s De laatste vrijheid?
The volcano in De laatste vrijheid becomes a figure for transformation, disruption, danger, renewal, and trans* possibility in postcolonial Caribbean society.
Why did remembering Tula become politically important in Curaçao?
The commemoration of Tula and the 1795 slave revolt became a way to challenge colonial education, colonial memory, and the cultural archive of colonialism.