Cooking in Modernity's Crucible: Global Locals, Native Creoles, and the Politics of Mixture in the Caribbean

J. Brent Crosson is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2014 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at NYU before arriving at UT in 2015. He is the author of “What Obeah Does Do: Healing, Harming, and the Boundaries of Religion,” Journal of Africana Religions (2015), and “Own People: Race, Altered Solidarities, and the Limits of Culture in Trinidad,” Small Axe (2014).