Family memoirs are a special kind of historical offering. They have the power to tell fine-grained stories of the past, of epochal events—wars, migrations, empires—and to intricately connect them to ...

Adom Philogene Heron
Dr. Adom Philogene Heron is a lecturer in anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Adom’s work concerns questions of gender, kinship, and hurricanes in the Caribbean. His forthcoming monograph, provisionally titled “The Myth of the Dead Father,” presents an ethnographic exploration of paternal life in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean.