I have a jQuery script that creates a carousel to rotate images left and right on user click. At first, I wasnt planning on putting more than one carousel on a single page, but
Since your action tags are nested in the first level inside the carousel, you can do this inside each function to know were it belongs :
var parent = $(this).parent().get(0);
Will actually get you the parent object, which you can now use.
Inside of an event handler, the variable:
$(this)
will get you the calling element. From there, to get the containing div you can use the parent() function:
$(this).parent()
Use that to walk through the DOM.
Use the .parent() function go up a level. Your code might look something like this:
$('.right-button img').click(function()
{
carousel = $(this).parent();
//bunch of code
}