Nicolette Bethel

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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]

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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).

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