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Title: The Parish Behind God's Back: The Changing of Rural Barbados by George Gmelch, Sharon Bohn Gmelch ISBN: 1-57766-209-1 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Well written, readable ethnographic account of Barbados
Comment: Excellent ethnography of the the changes that have been occurring in Barbados since the arrival of Europeans and Africans. The Gmelches take students to the island for a semester every other year so they can learn how to do ethnographic research in cultural anthropology. They are placed in Bajian homes and live there for ten weeks. The book is well informed by the students' perspectives. They help us all see what this island is like and what the life of the islanders has become in the light of tourism development on the island. The Gmelches write well and the book is easy to read and very informative. I have made the book a required text in one of my university, introductory anthropology courses.

Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent depiction of life in rural Barbados.
Comment: The Gmelch's have, for many years, taken mostly white, middle-class, students from the USA to spend a college term living in rural St. Lucy Parish, Barbados. "The Parish Behind God's Back" presents a highly readable, appreciative, ethnographic account of contemporary village life gleaned from the Gmelch's own field work and that of their students. This book makes a very strong case for the value of study abroad schemes as it lets readers understand much about the process by which students gain insights into themselves and their own cultures while learning to live among strangers.

This book is an enjoyable read and highly informative. I have adopted it as a mandatory reading for my university course "Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean."

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