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The Cocoa Panyols of Trinidad: An Oral Record
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About The Cocoa Panyols Of Trinidad: An Oral Record
The Panyols (from españoles) descended from rural peoples living in Trinidad and Eastern Venezuela during the period ofimperial Spanish-America. A mixture of Amerindian, Spanish and African, the Panyols comprised a community unique to Trinidad in the nineteenthand early twentieth centuries. They resolutely preserved their cultural and linguistic heritage, fortifying their position by analmost exclusive involvement in cacao production. Today, however, the Panyol community is fast disappearing in Trinidad. This book is an oral history of the decline of the Panyol culture. The people, proud and vivacious, close guardians oftheir cultural heritage, tell their own stories. Caught at the near end of their lives, many are anxious to unveil their richrepository of songs, tales, prayers, proverbs, pharmacology and personal histories. Some are more reticent. The author’stask was to skilfully tease out what the narrators feared to lose, and simultaneously feared to reveal.Sylvia Moodie-Kublalsingh is a former Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, where she started lecturing in1970. She taught Spanish and Latin American Dialectology and was the founding Director of the University’s Centre forLanguage Learning (1998-2005). She is the author of several school Spanish textbooks. The Cocoa Panyols of Trinidadwill be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, linguists and those in the field of Caribbean and Latin America culturalstudies.
