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The Caribs of the Antilles
La Géographie • 35 • Published In 1921 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-15 [Original: 127-146 ]
By: Neveu-Lemaire, M., Dickerman, Marie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a summary of reconstructed and documented history of the Island Caribs and the results of brief observations made at the Dominica reservation about 1920. With respect to the modern Caribs, the author gives some information regarding the following topics: geographical environment, physical description of the people, dress and adornment, personality, dwellings, hammocks, utensils, diet, boats, weapons, the current chief and his activities, the register of vital statistics, marriage practices, religious status, and language. The last subject includes a brief vocabulary and a comparative treatment of the current language with that of earlier years and of Arawak and Galibi words. The author concludes with an opinion that the Caribs are likely to become absorbed by intermarriage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Mortality
- Descriptive somatology
- History and culture change
- Language
- Judicial authority
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Geographer
- 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 ; 1959
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1920
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1912-1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dominica
- NotesAdditional notes
- by M. Neveu-Lemaire
- Translation of: [Les Caraiacute;bes des Antilles]
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF filed by Marie Dickerman in 1959
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Carib Indians