Centring the periphery : chaos, order, and the ethnohistory of Dominica / Patrick L. Baker.

The concept of "centring" is used to mean "ordering the world," and Baker links this to ideas in chaos theory, which views order and disorder as mutually generative phenomena rather than static antinomies. Thus strategies to control disorder and create and maintain order may sudd...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Baker, Patrick L.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Subjects:	Dominica > History. Dominica. History.