The New West Indian Guide is the oldest scholarly journal on the Caribbean.
It presents English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, music, political science and sociology.
It includes the world's most complete review section on Caribbean books, covering some 150 books each year.
Published continuously since 1919.
Published between 1919 and 1991 as Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (issn 0028-9930)
It presents English-language articles in the fields of anthropology, art, archaeology, economics, geography, geology, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, music, political science and sociology.
It includes the world's most complete review section on Caribbean books, covering some 150 books each year.
Published continuously since 1919.
Published between 1919 and 1991 as Nieuwe West-Indische Gids (issn 0028-9930)
NWIG is a peer reviewed journal and regularly publishes contributions by authors in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, England, Germany, Guyana, the Netherlands, Suriname, the United States, and Venezuela, as well as every part of the insular Caribbean.
The total number of pages of virtually each NWIG volume exceeds 300 pages and is issued in December and July without fail due to a rigorously respected deadline.
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Vol 86, No 3&4 (2012)
Table of Contents
Articles
| Grete Viddal | Abstract PDF |
| Vodú Chic: Haitian Religion and the Folkloric Imaginary in Socialist Cuba | 205-236 |
| Ulbe Bosma, Jonathan Curry-Machado | Abstract PDF |
| Two Islands, One Commodity: Cuba, Java, and the Global Sugar Trade (1790-1930) | 237-262 |
| Cecilia A. Green | Abstract PDF |
| Local Geographies of Crime and Punishment in a Plantation Colony: Gender and Incarceration in Barbados, 1878-1928 | 263-290 |
Review articles
| Anthony P. Maingot | Abstract PDF |
| Discovering One’s Own C.L.R. James | 291-297 |
| Ronald N. Harpelle | Abstract PDF |
| West Indian Sojourners in Guatemala and Honduras | 298-301 |
| Landon Yarrington | Abstract PDF |
| The (Im)possibility of Time Travel: Haiti ’s Pre- and Post-Earthquake Futures | 302-308 |
Book reviews
| Abstract PDF | |
| Book reviews | 309-407 |
ISSN: 1382-2373