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Open Source Ethnographies featured below in some cases have been the product of overt or behind-the-scenes collaboration between Max Forte and usually Trinidadian colleagues outside the university, and are often of a visual/videographic nature. A select list includes:

Alien Abduction: Doing Calypso “the Right Way” in the USA

Show Me Your Motion! (Of Mentors, Peers, and Mimesis and Alterity in Trinidad)

(Video) Notes from the Indian Diaspora, Part 1: Responding to Modernity and the Tyranny of Tradition

Monday Morning “Mor Tor”: Wine it up just so…for the Video Notes from the Indian Diaspora, Part 2

Stockholm Bollywood: “Jumma chumma de de” and Memories of a Cultural Shock (provided as background for the two items immediately above this)

Victory Hate from the One Party State in 2008