Caribbean Society and Culture - Concepts and Theorists

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Across
  1. 2. – The creation of new cultural forms through cultural mixing, adaption and synthesis
  2. 5. – A cultural theorist of the Jamaican diaspora in the UK who wrote on diasporic identity, cultural representation and Caribbean cultural identity.
  3. 7. – A Cuban anthropologist who coined the term ‘transculturation’.
  4. 8. – Transnational communities of Caribbean migrants and descendants in foreign territories who maintain economic, emotional and cultural ties to their homeland.
  5. 10. – The Jamaican economist who formulated the Plantation Society Theory.
  6. 13. – Societies made up of coexisting racial and ethnic groups under the same government with different social institutions
  7. 16. – Narrow mindedness caused by geographic isolation which hinders regional integration efforts.
  8. 20. – The absorption or adoption of traits from a dominant foreign culture
  9. 22. – This Smith was a sociologist noted for extensive research on Caribbean family structure, matrifocal households and kinship systems.
  10. 24. – An anthropologist who conducted studies on Caribbean sugar plantation, slave economies and foodways.
  11. 25. – Learned way of life common to a group defined by values, norms, beliefs and material products.
  12. 26. – A collective of people who share a defined territorial space, common purpose, citizenship and continuity over time.
  13. 28. – A Barbadian poet and historian who formulated the theory of creolisation.
  14. 29. – A genre of music native to Guadeloupe and Martinique developed in the 1970s.
  15. 30. – Theory which states that the social stratification, hierarchy and economy of society is structured around a colonial institution.
  16. 31. – The resurgence of cultural practices and heritage that were previously suppressed, forgotten or ignored.
Down
  1. 1. – A political scientist who documented ethnic conflict, pigmentocracy and political divisions between Caribbean people of Afro and Indo descent.
  2. 3. – A cultural group that maintain specialised beliefs, values or behaviours that are distinct from the main culture.
  3. 4. – Strong devotion, political commitment and ideological pride toward one’s nation or region.
  4. 6. – A Trinidadian sociologist with the last name ‘Brathwaite’ who analysed issues related to social stratification, elite values and class consensus in Trinidad.
  5. 8. – The racial and cultural mixing of individuals of African and East Indian descent.
  6. 9. – The adoption and blending of minority cultural groups into the dominant culture of a society.
  7. 11. – A festival celebrated in the Bahamas during Christmas and New Years.
  8. 12. – A small group whose values, beliefs and lifestyle oppose and reject the dominant norms or mainstream society.
  9. 13. – The system of assigning social status and opportunities based on skin tone.
  10. 14. – The merging of religious and cultural traditions to create a new socially acceptable form.
  11. 15. – Mainstream cultural forms based on the likes, expressions and experiences of the masses.
  12. 17. – Localised, traditional and informal cultural practices practiced by rural communities which are shared orally.
  13. 18. – The exchange, merging and transformation of cultural traits from multiple groups resulting in the rise of cultural phenomena.
  14. 19. – Cultural expressions associated with the educated elite and upper social classes
  15. 21. – The survival and preservation of traditional cultural practices despite suppression or colonial change.
  16. 23. – The learning, absorption and assimilation of the cultural practices, values and tradition of your own group across generations.
  17. 24. – This Smith was a Jamaican anthropologist known for the Plural Society Thesis.
  18. 27. – The disappearance of cultural traditions due to dominant cultural pressure, modernization or hybridization.