Viranjini Munasinghe is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian-American Studies at Cornell University.
"This innovative study of identity construction of Indo-Trinidadians is a valuable contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the East Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, as well as to comparative ethnic studies... Munasignhe's book is grounded in solid ethnographic fieldwork in villages with colonial plantation origins, but is also attentive to history, and especially postcolonial politics up to the 1990s, when Indo-Trinidadians wrested political power from Afro-Trinidadians."-Choice, September 2002 "Munasinghe here deftly probes the dynamics of ethnicity and nationalism by examining the strategies used by east Indians to gain a secure and acknowledged place in Trinidadian politics and culture."- Frank J. Korom "Religious Studies Review" Vol. 29. No 4, Oct '03 "Although this book is about Trinidad, Munasinghe's argument bears, at least in principle, on all countries that see themselves as being made up of a variety of immigrant groups of distinct cultural identity... Even so, Callaloo or tossed salad is sure to attract anthropologists interested in the Caribbean, both because of the importance of Trinidad within the region and because of the region-wide issues that is raises. It should attract anthropologists interested in identity and national politics more generally, for the descriptive material is complimented by a useful and interesting analytical framework of broader applicability. It is nice to see a tale this interesting told this well."-James G. Carrier, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 2003, vol. 9, no. 1
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