book chapter
Concerning the savages called Caribs
account of the establishment of the French in the year 1635 on the Island of Martinique • A Paris • Published In 1640 • Pages: HRAF Ms: i, 8 [Original: 105-130 ]
By: Bouton, Jacques, McKusick, Marshall Bassford, Verin, Pierre.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This selection is taken from the first known work on the French in the Antilles, written by a missionary who spent three months in the islands. As a summary of impressions of the Carib in the year 1637, it presents very brief chapters on religion, clothing, occupations, commerce or relations with Europeans, eating and drinking, warfare, and lore and learning. Although the information is not unusual compared to that of other early writers, it is perhaps of special value in representing the earliest knowledge of the Caribs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Spirits and gods
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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. 1630
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1630
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dominica
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Jacques Bouton
- Translation of: [Relation de l'establissement des Francois depvis l'an 1635]
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Marshall McKusick and Pierre Verin in 1958
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02013773
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Carib Indians