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The ethnobotany of the Island Caribs of Dominica
Webbia • 12 • Published In 1957 • Pages: 513-644
By: Hodge, Walter H., Taylor, Douglas MacRae.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an invaluable addition to the relatively scarce information on the Island Caribs, being a careful analysis of cultural usage and a description and a description of most of the plants employed by the Dominican Indians. The authors first present an introduction to the history and culture of the Caribs, followed by an explanation of their materials and methods of research. The body of the work is a catalog of known plants of both native and foreign origin which were or are of economic value to the Caribs. Each plant is listed according to family, genus and species, with botanical, Creole, English, and Carib names, described and placed in the Dominican geography, accounted for in terms of usage by the Dominicans and others, and cited by number in botanical collections. Data on the uses of the plants by other groups is given when available. An enumeration of plants by use and four indices of the names by languages enhance the worth of this source.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Ethnobotany
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Botanist
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 1930-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dominica
- NotesAdditional notes
- W. H. Hodge and Douglas Taylor
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 624-627)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 08030693
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Carib Indians