When is a calabash not a calabash?

Abstract

of calabashes and gourds by non-Western peoples living in the Caribbean and other tropical environments. With few exceptions, the terms calabash and gourd have been assumed by speakers of European languages to be synonymous and to designate a more or less homogeneous botanical (and cultural) domain. This paper argues that the traditional interchangeability of these two terms has led to confusions in the ethnographic literature on African and Afro-American calabash arts and

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