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The Changing Identity of South Asian Guyanese
During our many Christmastime conversations, the question of my graduate thesis came up. Ben, in an urge to experiment with self-publishing and happening to know I had a fairly polished hundred pages, put this together back in 2008 and made it available via Lulu. He designed the cover art and wrote the blurbage as well (basically, everything required to make it accessible).
Mom Bengfort, in particular, advocated for making sure that this paper was available to those interested in the topic. If I do say so myself (and definitionally, I do), while it isn’t groundbreaking anthropology or breathtaking Shakespeare, the extensive bibliography would be very useful to any student of Guyanese anthropology, sociology, history, or literature.
In any case, if you’re here at Bengfort.com, statistically you are here for the cookbook. So this is, in essence, a classic “But wait! There’s more!” Consider this your invitation to sit down with a nice spread of dahl, roti, pumpkin, and armchair anthropology.
By the way…if you were to, ahem, buy the book, you would find that it is intended as the inaugural issue in a series of “Bengfort Theses” a certain young man has hopes of producing…and just think of the possibilities…we could group shorter papers (even multiple authors!), exploiting what thematic links surely exist.
They call it a vanity press for a reason, but what fun!
Yes- I can’t wait to publish all of our theses when they’re done! We’ll have quite the library!
My copy has already been loaned out!