essay
Kin ties, food and remittances in a Garifuna village in southern Belize
Diet and domestic life in society • Philadelphia • Published In 1991 • Pages: 119-146, 263-272
By: Palacio, Joseph O..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This chapter examines household structure and inter-household networks in a marginal Garifuna village. The author discusses the sharing of food, money, and kin, which involves fosterage of children among households based on their kin ties and obligations. Also described is how such relationships and practices facilitate the flow of basic necessities within the community. The document includes the complete ten-page list of references for the entire volume of “Diet and Domestic Life in Society.”
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Diet
- Administration
- Income and demand
- Household
- Kin relationships
- 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
- essay
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1979-1980
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1979-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Lisurnia,' southern Belize
- NotesAdditional notes
- Joseph Palacio
- Based on a symposium held at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Dec. 1981, in Los Angeles, Calif.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-272)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90040636
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garifuna (Caribbean people)