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Why the cocks trade: what a transnational art market can reveal about cross-bor...
Taylor, Erin BrookeIn the streets of Santo Domingo, Haitian and Dominican paintings are sold side-by-side, usually by Haitian dealers attracted to their neighbour’s much larger tourist market. They are easy to tell apart, for the Haitian paintings generally conform to the naïf style, whereas the Dominican paintings feature rural scenes or Taïno designs. The cultural differences in the designs of the paintings, and their appeal to...
Materiality and the making of moral economies
Taylor, Erin BrookeDrawing upon three research projects in the Dominican Republic and Haiti over the past eight years, this paper examines the utility of a materialist approach to understanding how social relations are negotiated and interpreted among different strata and institutions. Throughout my fieldwork in multiple sites on the island of Hispaniola, materiality repeatedly emerged as a means through which research participan...
When Crisis Is Experienced as Continuity: Materialities of Time in Haiti
Taylor, Erin BrookeThis paper explores various ways in which time is experienced and practiced by Haitians living on the Dominican-Haitian border. By examining different kinds of temporal practices and viewpoints, the author questions the assumption that the earthquake of January 2010 has brought a significant break with the past and shows that rather than an isolated and unique rupture, crisis is a relatively constant feature of...
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