book chapter
Carib-French dictionary
Par Gilles Bovqvet • A Avxerre • Published In 1665 • Pages:
By: Breton, Raymond, McKusick, Marshall Bassford, Verin, Pierre.
Abstract
The source for this compilation is Breton's DICTIONAIRE CARAIBE-FRANçOIS, MESLé DE QUANTITé DE REMARQUES HISTORIQUES POUR L'ESCLAIRCISSEMENT DE LA LANGUE, Auxerre, 1665. The author of the original was a French missionary in the Lesser Antilles who spent ninteen years among the Island Caribs, living the last five alone with them in Dominica. His works were primary sources for many later writers. The translators, graduate students in anthropology at Yale University, include information of a general ethnographic nature, but exclude data on French colonization, lists of place names and native terms of animals, and linguistic material, all of which may be readily gathered from the facsimile text of the original. Religion and subsistence categories are more complete than others.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- George R. Bedell ; 1958
- Field Date
- ca. 1650
- Coverage Date
- 1650
- Coverage Place
- Dominica
- Notes
- By Raymond Breton
- Translation of: [Dictionaire caraibe-françois, meslé de quantité de remarques historiques pour l'esclaircissement de la langue, compose par le r.p. Raymond Breton]
- A copy of a facsimile edition of DICTIONAIRE CARAIBE-FRANçOIS, MESLé DE QUANTITé DE REMARQUES HISTORIQUES POUR L'ESCLAIRCISSEMENT DE LA LANGUE published in 1892 is included in the microfiche collection only and is not indexed for subjects
- Selected, organized and translated for the HRAF files by Marshall McKusick and Pierre Verin in 1958
- LCCN
- 07008061
- LCSH
- Black Carib Indians