book chapter
Carib-French dictionary
Par Gilles Bovqvet • A Avxerre • Published In 1665 • Pages:
By: Breton, Raymond, McKusick, Marshall Bassford, Verin, Pierre.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Food preparation
- Ornament
- Personal grooming
- Visiting and hospitality
- Etiquette
- Polygamy
- Kinship terminology
- Spirits and gods
- 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
- ca. 1650
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1650
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dominica
- NotesAdditional 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 07008061
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Carib Indians