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A Meditation on Cazabon's East Indian Group
Author(s) -
Angrosino Michael V.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1525/anhu.2004.29.1.34
Subject(s) - meditation , colonialism , ethnography , representation (politics) , painting , reflexivity , anthropology , history , art , sociology , art history , visual arts , archaeology , political science , politics , law
Using concepts derived from the field of postcolonial studies, as well as insights gleaned from three decades of ethnographic fieldwork among the East Indians of Trinidad, the author, an anthropologist, analyzes East Indian Group, a watercolor by the 19 th ‐century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon. The painting is seen as a textual example of a reflexive and resistant representation of the colonial Other.