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Garifuna, also called Black Caribs, are the descendents of a mixed population of runaway slaves and Carib Indians, who inhabited the island of St. Vincent until their expulsion by the British in 1797, when their story begins. They found refuge on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize, where they live today. Their culture has been influenced by encounters with Miskito Indians, and British and Spanish settlers. Since the Second World War a large number of men have emigrated abroad seeking work to supplement the income of their matrifocal households at home.

Gubida illness and religious ritual among the Garifuna of Santa Fe, Honduras

Garifuna children's language shame

Symbolic interaction in rituals of gender and procreation among the Garifuna (Black Caribs) of Honduras

Ethnobotany of the Garífuna of eastern Nicaragua

The Black Carib of Honduras

Ethnicity and mating patterns in Punta Gorda, Belize

Heart drum

Sojourners of the Caribbean

Black Carib household structure

Culture summary

Exiled from St. Vincent

Carib folk songs and Carib culture

Women and the ancestors

Sexuality and social control among the Garifuna (Belize)

Past and present evidence of interethnic mating

Mating as a reproductive strategy

Ethnographic setting

Food and social relations in a Garifuna village

Age as a source of differentiation within a Garifuna village in southern Belize

Kin ties, food and remittances in a Garifuna village in southern Belize

Interpreting signs of illness

The Black Carib of British Honduras

Language shift and the redefinition of social boundaries among the Caribs of Belize

Author	Title	Publication Date
Bianchi, Cynthia Chamberlain	Gubida illness and religious ritual among the Garifuna of Santa Fe, Honduras	1989
Bonner, Donna	Garifuna children's language shame	2001
Chernela, Janet Marion	Symbolic interaction in rituals of gender and procreation among the Garifuna (Black Caribs) of Honduras	1991
Coe, Felix G.	Ethnobotany of the Garífuna of eastern Nicaragua	1996
Coelho, Ruy Galvão de Andrade	The Black Carib of Honduras	1989
Cosminsky, Sheila	Ethnicity and mating patterns in Punta Gorda, Belize	1984
Foster, Byron	Heart drum	1986
González, Nancie L. Solien	Sojourners of the Caribbean	1988
González, Nancie L. Solien	Black Carib household structure	1969
González, Nancie L. Solien, 1929	Culture summary	2005
Gullick, C. J. M. R.	Exiled from St. Vincent	1976
Hadel, Richard	Carib folk songs and Carib culture	1989
Kerns, Virginia	Women and the ancestors	1983
Kerns, Virginia	Sexuality and social control among the Garifuna (Belize)	1985
Kerns, Virginia	Past and present evidence of interethnic mating	1984
McCommon, Carolyn Sue	Mating as a reproductive strategy	1989
Munroe, Robert L.	Ethnographic setting	1964
Palacio, Joseph O.	Food and social relations in a Garifuna village	1989
Palacio, Joseph O.	Age as a source of differentiation within a Garifuna village in southern Belize	1987
Palacio, Joseph O.	Kin ties, food and remittances in a Garifuna village in southern Belize	1991
Staiano-Ross, Kathryn	Interpreting signs of illness	1986
Taylor, Douglas MacRae	The Black Carib of British Honduras	1951
Wright, Pamela Ann	Language shift and the redefinition of social boundaries among the Caribs of Belize	1989

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