TY - JOUR
AU1 - Manuel, Peter
AB - journal of social history spring 1998 one of the reasons it is now possible to perceive the cognitive constraints im .. posed by the book is that that format is now being abandoned as (computer) technology provides new ways to organize information. If only he had applied that insight to his analysis of the adoption of the book. The essential thrust of Mignolo's argument is a presentation of an epistemology as a technology, i.e., of alphabetic literacy as a tool of domination. Mignolo never came to grips with the implications of this construction. The test of any tool is its efficiency, and that test is always comparative, never absolute. Looked at from Mignolo's cho.. sen perspective, the question was not whether indigenous forms of information processing worked, but whether they worked as efficiently as the one introduced by the Spaniards. Mignolo never addresses this question, an oversight which takes away a good deal of the possible force behind his argument. Andrew E. Barnes Arizona State University Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making. By John Cowley (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv plus 293pp. $49.95). In the last decade scholarship on Trinidadian creole popular culture has been 
TI - Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Traditions in the Making. By John Cowley (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xv plus 293pp. $49.95)
JF - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1353/jsh/31.3.742
DA - 1998-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/carnival-canboulay-and-calypso-traditions-in-the-making-by-john-cowley-xHFhGI3W17
SP - 742
EP - 743
VL - 31
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -