Year: 1982
Type: article
Abstract: of calabashes and gourds by non-Western peoples living in the Caribbean and other tropical environments. With few exceptions, the terms calabash and gourd have been assumed by speakers of European languages to be synonymous and to designate a more or less homogeneous botanical (and cultural) domain. This paper argues that the traditional interchangeability of these two terms has led to confusions in the ethnographic literature on African and Afro-American calabash arts and
Author: Sally Price
Language: Dutch
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2086860356