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“Does My Voice Count?”: The Reconfiguration of Myth and Gender in Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch
No full textThe imbrication of depth psychology, textual genealogy, and Postcolonial Studies has not received much attention when healing trauma caused by slavery, colonization, and neocolonialism in the Caribbean. However, the white Trinidadian British author Monique Roffey, who was in Jungian analysis for many years, explores the efficacy of reconfigured myth in recuperating indigenous memory in her novel, The Mermaid of Black Conch (2020). Foregrounding Adrian del Valle’s Cuban version of the oral Taíno (Aycayia) myth from Tradiciones y Leyendas de Cienfuegos (1919), Roffey’s novel re-imagines the representation of patriarchal gender relations by empowering the mermaid through self-determined, conscious sexuality and turning the male gaze through relatedness. At the same time, however, the novel problematizes woman-on-woman envy, jealousy, and implication in androcentric power structures to show the limits of self-realization due to systemic racism. Thus, the novel calls for a reconsideration of psychological growth across gender and color lines in a trans-Caribbean context and beyond
"The Doves Are Censured While the Crows Are Spared": Steele's 1711 Inkle and Yarico Adaptation
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Review of Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
No full textIndian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, by Alex von Tunzelmann. New York: Picador, 2008.
 
Review of: Mineralogical Analysis Applied to Forensics
No full textReview of: Mineralogical Analysis Applied to Forensics: A Guidance on Mineralogical Techniques and Their Application to the Forensic Field, edited by Mariano Mercurio, Alessio Langella, Rosa Maria Di Maggio, and Piergiulio Cappelletti
REFERENCE: Mariano Mercurio, Alessio Langella, Rosa Maria Di Maggio, and Piergiulio Cappelletti. Mineralogical Analysis Applied to Forensics: A Guidance on Mineralogical Techniques and Their Application to the Forensic Field. Springer Nature, 2022; 311 pp
The Loss of Indigenous Language Practices: Implications for Native Health, Healing, and Cultural Wellbeing
Get PDFBy 2050, almost 95% of the 300 living Indigenous languages are projected to be extinct. Before an Indigenous language goes extinct, the unique medicinal knowledge and practices within each tribe are often already eroded. Native medicine has health-promoting properties unique to aspects of Indigenous health and well-being, yet these benefits have slowly dwindled through the assimilation of Western medical systems. Simultaneously, the connection among Native language, medicine, healing, and cultural continuity is lost. Although the process of ancestral language learning is decreasing across Native tribes, emerging generations within Native tribes are still empowering themselves through the use of language. This commentary explores both a) the complex relationship among Indigenous languages and practices of Native healing, both historically and currently, and b) the processes of rhetorical survivance that are continuing across Native American communities
Exploring the Evolution of Trypanosoma cruzi and the Emergence of Chagas Disease in the Context of Environmental Change: Applying the Stockholm Paradigm to Archaeoparasitology (Part I)
No full textThe Stockholm Paradigm is an evolutionary synthesis that explains the emergence of novel pathogens in the context of environmental disturbances. Considering the urgent climate change situation, anticipation stands as key to prevent and mitigate the effects that climate change can have in the emergence of pathogens. However, the success of preventive measures is hindered by a limited knowledge of the interplaying dynamics between biology, environment, and culture leading to emerging infectious diseases. For many decades, bioarcheologists have been gathering data on past human–environment interactions, therefore contributing to the conversation. Archaeoparasitology, at the intersection between pathology, bioarchaeology, and biology, is uniquely placed to enquire about the circumstances that favored the emergence of novel pathogens in the past. We illustrate this task by reviewing the existing knowledge on the evolution of Trypanosoma cruzi and emergence of Chagas disease. When the scholarship on Chagas is completed with the lessons learned from the Stockholm Paradigm, this provides a long-term perspective on environmental change and human relations leading to the emergence of an infectious disease.