Caring labor and the affective economy in the making of the Caribbean
Alice V. M. Samson,
Jago Cooper,
María de las Mercedes Martínez Milantchi
et al.
Abstract:This article is a reflection on early colonial industries as caring labor rather than just commodity production or resistance. We draw on Indigenous philosophies of relations and Amazonian ontologies to foreground care and frame the Caribbean material record. We investigate how traditional things such as hammocks and cassava bread produced by a sixteenth‐century encomienda population on Mona Island, part of the Puerto Rican archipelago, quickly became part and parcel of free and unfree contexts, extending sens… Show more
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