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Past and present evidence of interethnic mating
Current developments in anthropological genetics • 3 • Published In 1984 • Pages: 95-114
By: Kerns, Virginia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Nineteenth century travelers and twentieth century ethnographers have characterized the Black Caribs as an endogamous population. In this article, Kerns questions those observations and examines the evidence for interethnic mating found in past census data (1861 and 1881) and in new data gathered from three Belize villages. The author concludes that interethnic mating was common and that the Black Carib population has never been a genetical isolate. The appearance of an endogamous population may have more to do with socialization and the transmission of ethnicity among the Black Caribs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnic stratification
- Regulation of marriage
- Inter-ethnic 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Scientist
- 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
- 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
- 1974-1975
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1861-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Belize
- NotesAdditional notes
- Virginia Kerns
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-114)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84643380
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garifuna (Caribbean people)