Mirror for the Other: Marijuana, Multivocality and the Media in an Eastern Caribbean Country

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  • Hymie Rubenstein University of Manitoba

Abstract

Cultural anthropology's "Mirror for Man" has always been a mirror mainly by and for the West. A corollary of the preoccupation with writing to ourselves about the Other in the specialized jargon and prose of the discipline is that little effort is made by First World anthropologists to write for and to the Third World Other in a manner that is accessible to them.

My aim is to illustrate how the discipline's mandate of cultural critique can be extended to incorporate and engage that Other by referring to my experience of anthropology as journalism in the Eastern Caribbean country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines where my critique consisted of a long series of newspaper articles questioning elite and middle-class societal beliefs about the causes and consequences of marijuana production, sale and consumption.

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Author Biography

Hymie Rubenstein, University of Manitoba

Hymie Rubenstein is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. His research interests include Caribbean ethnology, peasant society, labour migration, small farming and the anthropology of drugs. He is a registered citizen of the Eastern Caribbean country of St. Vincent and the Grenadines where he has been carrying out long-term field research since 1969. His major publications include Coping With Poverty: Adaptive Strategies in a Caribbean Village (Westview Press, 1987), Small Farming and Peasant Resources in the Caribbean (edited by John S. Brierley and Hymie Rubenstein, Manitoba Geographical Studies 10, University of Manitoba, 1988) and "Migration, Development and Remittances in Rural Mexico," International Migration 30(2): 127-151.

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Published

2022-06-02

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Rubenstein, H. (2022). Mirror for the Other: Marijuana, Multivocality and the Media in an Eastern Caribbean Country. Anthropologica, 37(2), 173–206. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2016

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Vol. 37 No. 2 (1995)

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