The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharika D. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Ecological Sustainability ◽  
The People ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
National Governments

Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean as a waterscape where imperial and national governments vied to control the profitability of the sea. Crawford places the green and hawksbill sea turtles and the Caymanian turtlemen who hunted them at the center of this waterscape. The story of the humble turtle and its hunter, she argues, came to play a significant role in shaping the maritime boundaries of the modern Caribbean. Crawford describes the colonial Caribbean as an Atlantic commons where all could compete to control the region’s diverse peoples, lands, and waters and exploit the region’s raw materials. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Crawford traces and connects the expansion and decline of turtle hunting to matters of race, labor, political, and economic change, and the natural environment. Like the turtles they chased, the boundary-flouting laborers exposed the limits of states’ sovereignty for a time but ultimately they lost their livelihoods, having played a significant role in the legislation delimiting maritime boundaries. Still, former turtlemen have found their deep knowledge valued today in efforts to protect sea turtles and recover the region’s ecological sustainability.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Sharika D. Crawford
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Sea Turtles ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Ecological Consequences ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Hawksbill Turtles

This chapter introduces readers to the men who hunted green and hawksbill turtles from the Cayman Islands during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It connects the turtlemen's labor and long-distance hunting trips to diplomatic disputes over maritime boundaries with numerous Spanish-speaking states in Central and South America. The chapter argues that turtle hunters or turtlemen transformed the natural environment with their pursuit of sea turtles, which will have devastating ecological consequences. It also situates these men as part of an entangled maritime world often underexplored in histories of the Caribbean, where studies on the cultivation of agro-export commodities from sugar to bananas from the periods of slavery to post-emancipation dominate existing scholarship. Finally, it introduces an array of familiar and unfamiliar Caribbean locales linked to the turtle trade and its markets in the wider Atlantic world.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Paugh
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
British Caribbean ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The strategies for the management of reproduction in colonial settings that emerged during the age of abolition continued to reverberate in the British Caribbean in the mid to late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The supervision of midwives of African descent by British and white creole women, concerns about supposedly racially characteristic venereal disease, and a tendency to blame infant mortality on the sexual and parental irresponsibility of laborers, all continued to characterize governmental supervision of colonial reproduction in the Caribbean.

Internal marketing of attitudes in Caribbean tourism

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne P. Crick
Keyword(s):  
Internal Marketing ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Caribbean Tourism ◽  
The Way

Tourism is the mainstay of the Caribbean and the attitude of the people in the region may have a significant impact on the success of the industry. This paper analyzes the way in which tourism authorities of three Caribbean destinations have internally marketed tourism to their host populations in order to encourage the desired attitudinal expressions. A matrix of five possible responses to tourism was developed and each of the three countries was found to occupy different positions in the matrix. An analysis of the internal marketing strategies determined that the countries adopted different approaches based on their particular challenges but none of the approaches had achieved lasting success. The study concludes with recommendations for future research.

The “all‐inclusive” concept in the Caribbean

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Issa ◽  
Chandana Jayawardena
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
The World ◽  
Inclusive Concept ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Necessary Evil

Seeks to review the all‐inclusive concept in the context of the Caribbean. The origin of all‐inclusives in the world and the Caribbean is analysed. The concept was first introduced in holiday camps in Britain during the 1930s. Club Med is credited for popularizing the concept globally in the 1950s. However, the credit of introducing a luxury version of the all‐inclusive concept goes to a Jamaican hotelier and co‐author of this article. In defining the concept of all‐inclusives, one cannot ignore the significant role Jamaica has played. Currently, Jamaica has 17 of the best 100 all‐inclusive resorts in the world. Even though all‐inclusives are occasionally criticized, they are seen as a necessary evil. Concludes by predicting that all‐inclusives are here to stay in the Caribbean and will play a major role in tourism for the foreseeable future.

Traditional Ritual, Water Conservation, and Islamic Thought

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-145
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fathi Royyani ◽  
Abdul Syukur
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
The People ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Anthropological Approach ◽  
Symbolic Practices

Traditional ritual is a kind of expression of art and culture as well as a form of human appreciation of nature, gained through long term and perpetual processes. Traditional ritual thus can thus be regarded as traditional wisdom. Kawin Cai is one of the traditional rituals in Kuningan society derived from inter religious views. Through this ritual we could tell that the people respect their natural environment for sustainable living. Nonetheless, most of the symbolic practices in the ritual are no longer understood by the people, so that anthropological approach is needed to interpret them.

scholarly journals МЕТОДЫ СТАБИЛЬНЫХ ИЗОТОПОВ В ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯХ АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ОБЪЕКТОВ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Rishko ◽  
◽  
G. Zaitseva ◽  
N. Burova ◽  
A. Sementsov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elemental Analysis ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
High Accuracy ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
Instrumental Technique ◽  
Technological Methods

Currently, many of the key archeology issues, including the questions of origin, relationships, migration and trade routes, sources of raw materials, technological methods in the processing of metals, etc., are difficult to solve by ar- cheology means alone. Progress in the field of instrumental technique regarding the advent of the latest-generation devices allows not only to perform elemental analysis of samples but also to measure with high accuracy different isotopes, which are often certain markers that characterize some components of the natural environment, provinces of habitation, diet and other important aspects of the ancient people’s habitat.

scholarly journals Zalacca Based Food Industry Development in Karang Asem District Bali Province

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
I Gusti Bagus Udayana ◽  
Ni Made Defy Janurianti ◽  
AA Mayun Wirajaya ◽  
Made Yuliartini ◽  
Luh Kartini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Industry ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
The People ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Distribution Process ◽  
Hierarchy Analysis ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
High Yields

The food industry is one of the industries that is growing very rapidly throughout the world, including in Indonesia. Various types of food and beverages with an attractive appearance continue to be produced to increase the aesthetic value and attractiveness of consumers. Food and beverage production processes include the selection of raw materials, food and beverage processing, food and beverage quality testing, packaging to the food and beverage distribution process. Every process that takes place must be controlled so that the final product produced is safe and suitable for consumption by consumers. Zalacca production in Karangasem Regency is very good to be developed into the useful food industry. The development of the zalacca-based food industry can increase added value for the people and zalacca commodities. The results of the study using the Process Hierarchy Analysis methodology show that Chips, Syrups, and Extracts occupy high yields to be developed.

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