Dominica Journals

Here's a re-post of a video - short documentary portrait, a snapshot of the everyday life of a Fern carver, husband and father in Dominica's Kalinago territory - that I posted on fathermen some months back (Nom Figwe: A brief portrait of a Kalinago Fern tree Carver in Dominica)

I have chosen to re-post the video in light of my recent (yet late) discovery of an excellent magazine entitled Dominica Journals, edited by Paul Crask, one of the producers of the Nom Figwe video. The first edition (embedded below) features an article, also entitled Nom Figwe, which offers the reader a descriptive contextual framing of the original video and tells us about the life of its protagonists.

The magazine is of particular interest to me as an anthropologist because its content is deeply ethnographic in its richness of narrative detail and attention to the nuances of everyday lived experience on the island.

I commend Mr Crask for this fantastically produced yet under-recognized publication whilst my excitement and anticipation builds for the second edition.

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Paul Crask is a travel writer, photographer and freelance journalist. For more on his work please visit his website:

http://www.paulcrask.com/