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1119 Notes on Contributors J. H. Adhin was a member of Parliament in Suriname for many years and served as minister of justice and police and in other official positions. He has published many articles and books on topics ranging from law, religion, and philosophy to economics, sociology , history, and education. These included Miscellanea: diverse artikelen van Jnan H. Adhin and Development Planning in Surinam in Historical Perspective . Nélida Agosto Cintrón is an anthropologist living in Puerto Rico. The major focus of her research has been on the religious practices that developed after the U.s. invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898. She is the author of Religión y cambio social en Puerto Rico (1898– 1940). Funso Aiyejina is dean of the faculty of humanities and education and professor of literatures in English in the Department of Liberal Studies at the University of the West Indies, Saint Augustine , Trinidad. An award-winning poet and satirist, Dr. Aiyejina’s stories and plays have been dramatized on Nigerian and British radio. Among his many publications is Self-Portraits: Interviews with Ten West Indian Writers and Two Critics. Kareemah Ali teaches high school literature in Trinidad. She does research in the area of Islam in the Caribbean. Zohorah Nazma Ali lectures in literatures in English in the Department of Liberal Studies at the University of West Indies, Saint Augustine, Trinidad. One of her research interests is Islam in the Caribbean. Aníbal Argüelles Mederos is a specialist on African Cuban religions with the Department of Socioreligious Studies, Center for Psychological and Sociological Research (ciPs), in Havana and a professor at the University of Havana. His publications include Sistemas adivinatorios de la Regla Ochoa and Los llamados cultos sincréticos y el espiritismo (with Ileana Hodge). Sophia Arredondo lectures in the Women’s Studies Department at San Diego State University in California. Her research focuses on images and ideas that have influenced the perception of women and women in crosscultural perspective, including women and Vodou. Ataur Bacchus is a senior engineer in the Intelligent Transportation Systems program of the Ministry of Transportation , Ontario, Canada. He has strong recollections of religious life in Guyana. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee. His research interests include sociocultural development, national identity, religion, and sexuality in Africa and the African diaspora . He is the author of In the Shadow of the Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought and Haiti: The Breached Citadel, editor of Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in the Americas, and coeditor of Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers and Haitian Vodou: Spirit, the Myth, the Reality; Vodou in Haitian Development (with Claudine Michel). Alan F. Benjamin lectures in Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University . He is the author of Jews of the Dutch Caribbean: Exploring Ethnic Identity on Curaçao. Juana Berges is a researcher with the Department of Socioreligious Studies at the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research (ciPs) in Havana. She is a specialist in the study of Protestantism in Cuba and development of new, nontraditional religious trends and movements and their impact on Latin American and Caribbean religiosity. Jean Besson is professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and an associate fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas. Dr. Besson’s research focuses on the cultural history of Jamaica and the eastern Caribbean. Her publications include Caribbean Narratives of Belonging : Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity (edited with Karen Fog Olwig), Martha Brae’s Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica, and Caribbean Land and Development Revisited. Kenneth Bilby is a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution and director of research at the Center for Black Music Research. Dr. Bilby has done extensive research on Jamaican culture and has written articles on African Jamaican religions and Jamaican music. He is the author of the book True Born Maroons, coauthor of Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae, and a general editor of Alan Lomax’s 1962 Caribbean recordings. Frank Birbalsingh is professor emeritus of English at York University, where he taught postcolonial literature. His publications include Passion and Exile: Essays on Caribbean Writing; Indenture and Exile: The Indo-Caribbean Experience ; Indo-Caribbean Resistance; and From Pillar to Post: The Indo-Caribbean Diaspora, as well as numerous articles, reviews, and book chapters. Lucie Bloemberg is a cultural anthropologist who did her doctoral research on Surinamese...

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