Nicolette Bethel
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Nicolette Bethel is a Bahamian teacher, writer and anthropologist. She is currently the Director of Culture in The Bahamas, and a part-time lecturer in Social sciences at the College of the Bahamas.
She studied at the Trinity College of the University of Toronto and at the Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge, where she got a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology in 2000.
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 0333554698).