The Split is a gap between the northern and the southern part of Caye Caulker, the Belizean island where I conduct ethnographic research, and it apparently was created by a hurricane and was then made bigger by fishermen who thus had a shorter way to the gas station. The Split is now the most northern part of […]
Monatsarchiv für März 2015
Meeting Pen Cayetano
This weekend, I met Pen Cayetano at his studio in Dangriga, a little town in the south of Belize which is known for its Garifuna population and also called the cultural capital of Belize. Pen is the inventor of Punta Rock, which is, next to Brukdown, one of the popular music styles considered to be authentically Belizean […]
Standard language – a thing of the past?
Kriol as a written language… During the last weeks, I met some really interesting people – for example Silvaana Udz from the National Kriol Council. She is teaching in the education department at the University of Belize and is a language activist, striving for making Kriol a written, standard language. She and other members of the […]
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