Nicolette Bethel

Nicolette Bethel is a Bahamian teacher, writer and anthropologist. She was the Director of Culture in The Bahamas,^[1] and is now a full-time lecturer in Social sciences at the College of the Bahamas.^[2]

Life

She studied at Trinity College in the University of Toronto and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where she got a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 2000.^[3]

While she has published several poems and short stories, and co-written and co-produced several plays for theatres of the Bahamas, she is arguably best known as an expert for Junkanoo, a Bahamian festival at Christmas.

She is also the editor and expander of her father's book on the festival: E. Clement Bethel; Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas (Macmillan Caribbean 1992, ISBN 0-333-55469-8).

References

1. ^ http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/bahamasweb2/home.nsf/vContentW/Cultural+Affairs+Dept.--Welcome--Culture+Nicolette+Bethel+Welcome+Message!Opendocument
2. ^ http://bahamapundit.typepad.com/bahama_pundit/2004/12/nicolette_bethe.html
3. ^ http://nicobethel.net/nico-at-home/resume.html

External links

• Author's blog

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