Eye to Eye. Kumar Mahabir. Season 4, Episode 24
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Christopher Laird speaks to anthropologist Kumar Mahabir about his first publication, THE STILL CRY, reads from it, his work as an anthropologist and his publications in East Indian folk culture in Trinidad. Speaks about his motivation for his work, his commitment to documenting the world outside of the Port of Spain dominated discourse. Oral history preservation. His cookery books, his folk and herbal medicine work.Speaks about how he sees the Indian contribution to the Caribbean. Keywords: The Still Cry, Oral history, Selwyn Cudjoe, herbs, Indo-Caribbean culture, traditional medicine.
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50 minutes
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