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‘Character’ was a key term in the early development of Anthropology as a discipline – Kant gives over the entire last section of his Anthropology to refining the idea of character as a ‘way of thinking’. Perhaps inevitably, however, its ideological career since then – as the mark of a kind, or type of person – has been highly ambivalent. In the Caribbean, though, the idiosyncratic biographical gaze...