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Eye to Eye. Season 4, Episode 24, Kumar Mahabir /

Christopher Laird speaks to anthropologist Kumar Mahabir about his first publication, THE STILL CRY, reads from it, his work as an anthropologist and his publications in East Indian folk culture in Trinidad. Speaks about his motivation for his work, his commitment to documenting the world outside of...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Laird, Christopher (Interviewer, Producer), Latiff, Ricky (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: [Trinidad and Tobago] : [publisher not identified], 2011.
Series:Academic Video Online
Subjects:
Mahabir, Kumar > Interviews.
Anthropologists > Interviews.
Oral history > Trinidad and Tobago.
East Indians > Trinidad and Tobago.
Anthropologues > Entretiens.
Histoire orale > Trinité-et-Tobago.
Indiens (Habitants de l'Inde) > Trinité-et-Tobago.
Anthropologists.
East Indians.
Oral history.
Trinidad and Tobago.
interviews.
Interviews.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Christopher Laird speaks to anthropologist Kumar Mahabir about his first publication, THE STILL CRY, reads from it, his work as an anthropologist and his publications in East Indian folk culture in Trinidad. Speaks about his motivation for his work, his commitment to documenting the world outside of the Port of Spain dominated discourse. Oral history preservation. His cookery books, his folk and herbal medicine work. Speaks about how he sees the Indian contribution to the Caribbean. Keywords: The Still Cry, Oral history, Selwyn Cudjoe, herbs, Indo-Caribbean culture, traditional medicine.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed August 16, 2016).
Physical Description:1 online resource (50 min.)
Playing Time:00:49:25