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• W779161620 abstract "Since the hurricanes of 2011 (Irene) and 2012 (Sandy), New York folklorists have been thinking about the impact of climate change on the resilience of local communities and the survival of folk and traditional cultures that depend on them. In the Caribbean and coastal areas of the southeastern United States, the regular but unpredictable experience of high winds, floods, storm surges, and damaging waves of major climate events have been a cultural constant throughout history. The final scenes of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God offers one iconic, traumatic description from the 1930s. The recent devastation in the Philippines from the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan is a further reminder of this ongoing struggle. Northeasterners' recent interest in the subject is new only to those whose notion of normal does not include such events. That sense of novelty is bound to change, and the fields of folklore and community cultural development in New York State, as well as beyond, had best learn to find creative and flexible approaches to working in this new environment. Those folklorists working with refugee communities, especially from areas torn by war, have long faced challenges of framing the remnants of cultural survival, but the assumption has often been that the best response to the initial trauma is the reclamation or re-creation of traditional culture in the new context. On the other hand, we are beginning to take a closer look at communities who have faced catastrophe on a regular basis and whose cultural practices encompass that experience. Many immigrant communities of the region have lifetimes of experience with much harsher and unpredictable climates then ours, as it once was, not to mention political and social upheaval. In the New York metropolitan area, these include communities from Haiti, Trinidad, and other Caribbean regions whose experiences with cyclones run deep. Some communities reflect an equally catastrophic experience of political, social, and military turmoil, including the Lost Boys of Sudan in Syracuse, as documented by Faye McMahon, or the Liberian community of Staten Island, and over the past 30 years, Central American immigrants, including survivors of Guatemala's civil of repression. Since the 1980s, Guatemalans have been part of the stream of immigration drawn by economic opportunity, but also pushed by oppression and war. Guatemalans now make up an increasing part of the Latin American population of Westchester County in New York and neighboring Fairfield County in Connecticut, having established a significant presence in the towns of Port Chester, Mount Kisco, and Elmsford in New York, and Stamford, Stratford, and Danbury in Connecticut. Guatemalans are beginning to be recognized as a social and cultural force, both across the region in pan-Latino cultural programs and in social service programs that address healthcare issues, education of next generations, and the multiple challenges facing day laborers. During the past five years, in my work as a county and regional folklorist in Westchester, I have come to know the Guatemalan community of the region. My initial contacts with community members, who were organizing cultural programs, evoked for me the painful and awkward knowledge of that country's largest 20th-century disaster: the repression of war and genocide dating back to the US-led coup d'etat of 1954 and continuing through the orgy of killing of indigenous peoples by the army in the 1980s, aided and abetted by the US, as it waged its counter-insurgency campaigns in neighboring El Salvador and sought to overthrow the government of Nicaragua. Although the worst atrocities of that period ended in Guatemala during the 1990s, accountability remains a distant hope for the people there. No stranger to the memory of hardship and disaster at home, the community was struck again in early October 2005, when Hurricane Stan barreled in from the Caribbean toward Central America, crossing Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and its southern state of Chiapas. …" @default.
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• W779161620 title "Hermanos Y Amigos De Guatemala: Folklore as Strategy for Cultural Survival" @default.
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