Book
Carib folk songs and Carib culture
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Hadel, Richard.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work, resulting from an eleven month's stay in the Carib village of Seine Bight, Belize, is divided into two parts. The first part provides general background material on the Garifuna -- history, geography, social organization, subsistence, etc. -- while the second, the major part of this source, deals with Carib folk songs and how they reflect and reaffirm those specific values of the society that created them. The author's stated purpose in the text, however, is not to verify this assumption PER SE, but instead to learn something about the ethos of the Caribs through the context of their folk songs (p. v). Throughout this portion of the text the dominant themes of the folk songs are related to the major themes of Carib life as observed in Seine Bight. These findings were then compared with the results of a projective test -- a modified version of the Sacks Sentence Completion Test -- administered by the author to ten males in the village (see Appendix II, p. 346 ff.). The results of the projective test seem generally to support and confirm the conclusions reached from the analysis of the ethnographic data and folk song texts regarding cultural theme dominance in the society. The complete text of all songs discussed in this source will be found in categories 539 and 533, Appendix I, pp. 169-345.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personality traits
- Traditional history
- Athletic sports
- Music
- Dance
- Literary texts
- Spectacles
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Missionary
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1970-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Seine Bight, Belize
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Richard Eugene Hadel
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Austin, University of Texas at Austin, 1972
- UM73-00447
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-360)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garifuna (Caribbean people)