Creolization as Cultural Creativity

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Creolization as Cultural Creativity This page intentionally left blank University Press of Mississippi / Jackson Creolization as Cultural Creativity Edited by Robert Baronand Ana C. Cara www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Previous versions of Roger D. Abrahams, “About Face: Rethinking Creolization” appeared as “Questions of Criolian Contagion” in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 459 (2003): 73–87, and as “Creolizations” in his Everyday Life: A Poetics of Vernacular Practices, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005: 217–237. A previous version of Robert Baron, “Amalgams and Mosaics, Syncretisms and Reinterpretations : Reading Herskovits and Contemporary Creolists for Metaphors of Creolization” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 459 (2003): 73–87. A previous version of Ana C. Cara, “The Poetics of Creole Talk” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 459 (2003): 36–56. A previous version of Lee Haring, “Techniques of Creolization” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 459 (2003): 19–35. A previous version of Raquel Romberg, “Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude” appeared as “Ritual Piracy: Or Creolization with an Attitude?” in New West Indian Guide 79, no. 3–4 (2005): 175–218. A previous version of Nick Spitzer, “Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures” appeared as Nicholas R. Spitzer, “Monde Créole: The Cultural World of French Louisiana Creoles and the Creolization of World Cultures” in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 459 (2003): 57–72. Previous versions of John F. Szwed, “Metaphors of Incommensurability” appeared in the Journal of American Folklore 116, no. 459 (2003): 9–18, and in his Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music and American Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005: 223–233. Copyright © 2011 by University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2011 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Creolization as cultural creativity / edited by Robert Baron and Ana C. Cara. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-61703-106-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61703-107-6 (ebook) 1. Creoles—Louisiana—Folklore. 2. Creoles—Caribbean Region—Folklore. 3. Creoles— Argentina—Folklore. 4. Folklore—Performance. I. Baron, Robert A. II. Cara, Ana C. GR111.F73C74 2011 398.209763—dc22 2011001437 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available To the memory of Daniel J. Crowley (1921–1998) This page intentionally left blank ...