book chapter
An account of the Island of Guadaloupe
Historie coloniale • 1 • Published In 1929 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-26 [Original: 45-74 ]
By: Breton, Raymond, la Paix, Armand de, Turner, Thomas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work was apparently based primarily on the information collected by Father Raymond Breton, a French missionary in the Lesser Antilles in the seventeenth century, whose Carib-French dictionary has been edited and processed for the files (see 2: Breton), but whose other early writings on the Caribs are not available except as rewritten by later authors. This source includes brief ethnographic notes on Carib traditional origins, their temperament, language, religion, dress and ornaments, foods, family organization, houses and boats, daily occupations, drinking parties, trading, warfare and weapons, diseases and practices related to death.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Speech
- Diet
- Cannibalism
- Adornment
- Division of labor by gender
- War
- Sickness
- Death
- Revelation and divination
- Missions
- Postnatal care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kalinago
- 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
- Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- 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
- George R. Bedell ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1635-1647
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1635-1656
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dominica and Guadeloupe
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Raymond Breton and Armand de la Paix
- Translation of: [Relations de l'Ile de la Guadeloupe]
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Thomas Turner in 1958
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Carib Indians