Download or read book Drinkers, Drummers, and Decent Folk written by John O. Stewart and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drinkers is a multi-form text. Essays, poetry, and fiction present rural life in Trinidad. These texts are interspersed with analytic and exploratory sections on the ethnographic and fieldwork experience. Within a context which includes the West Indian sugar estate at its core, and the distant but very influential U.S.A. at the periphery, Stewart reveals villagers struggling with problems of individual identity, as well as with problems occasioned by the historical struggle between African, European, and Indian cultural forms.