Associate Professor
Sociology/Anthropology and the Black Studies Program
Denison University
Anita
M. Waters
Associate Professor
Sociology/Anthropology and the Black Studies Program
Denison University
Specialties:
Caribbean Societies, Political Sociology,
Popular Culture, Race & Ethnicity
Anita M. Waters has been studying Jamaican political culture for more than twenty-five years. Her new book, Planning the Past: Heritage Tourism and Postcolonial Politics at Port Royal, will be published in August, 2006 by Lexington Books. Planning the Past focuses on the way that Jamaicans reconstruct their national history and grapple with their colonial past in telling and retelling Port Royal’s dramatic history of pirates, naval admirals, hurricanes and earthquakes. The plans for heritage tourism at Port Royal represent a chronological record of how history is retold. The fact that virtually none of the plans are ever realized reflects Jamaica’s national ambivalence about piratical and military history.