Reviews
"should take its place among the better ethnographies being done on Caribean society and culture at the moment." - Journal of Anthropological Research
--Journal of Anthropological Research
"Especially valuable because he tests abstract theories with concrete examples taken from the field. Any Time Is Trinidad Time is engagingly written, clear, and accessible." -Choice
--Choice
"A welcome addition to the ethnographic study of rural Trinidad." -Plantation Society in the Americas
--Plantation Society in the Americas
Birth's major contributions lie in his keen observations of every day behavior and in his ability to convey these observations in engaging prose. He has made outstanding and creative use of interview materials and his own experiences. . . .
Birth's focus on temporal metaphors and expressions provides him with an xcellent organizational framework for the presentation of his rich and varied ethnographic data (encompassing schooo, sports, music, gender, and television). Birth's careful attention to temporal metaphhors and idioms also reveals a great deal about everyday life in rural Trinidad and, b implication, life on other Caribbean islands. This is a first-rate ethnograwphy. I highly recommend it.
--AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST
"Kevin Birth, in this finely textured and eminently readable ethnography of a rural Trinidadian village, supplements conventional accounts of these phenomena with attention to the temporal frameworks within which they are actualized. The result is a highly original and welcome addition to Caribbean studies and the anthropology of time."
--American Anthropologist