Book
Exiled from St. Vincent: the development of Black Carib culture in Central America up to 1945
Progress Press • Malta • Published In 1976 • Pages:
By: Gullick, C. J. M. R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a detailed historical analysis of the evolution of Garifuna society from the early days of their residence on St. Vincent Island to 1945 in Central America. The author uses three major time frames for his discussion: the period from 1763-1797, while they still lived on St. Vincent; the period of 1797-1900 after their deportation to Central America by the British following the 'Carib Wars' and the period of 1900-1945, during which the society evolved into its present state. For each of these periods Gullick describes the major historical events affecting the Garifuna population, the external structure of the society (i.e., that part of the society's structure imposed from outside), the life cycle, the curing and religious system, the annual and daily/weekly cycles, the economic system, and the internal structure (political organization, kinship, etc.). A final chapter uses these elements of cultural analysis in a study of the acculturative effects of contacts with Caribbean Indian and black societies on the over-all structure of the Garifuna. This section presents much comparative information on the Island Caribs or Callinago people.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Annual cycle
- Polygamy
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garifuna
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1971
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1763-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- St. Vincent; Caribbean coast of Central America
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] C.J.M.R. Gullick
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-137) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80143098
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garifuna (Caribbean people)