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Land, politics, and ethnicity in a Carib Indian community
Ethnology • 14 (4) • Published In 1975 • Pages: 385-393
By: Owen, Nancy H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief history of the relationship between territory and ethnicity. Owen argues that the recent emergence of a strong ethnic identity among the Carib is related to their fear of losing control of commonly-owned reserve land. The Carib stress their unique identity in order to protect their unique status and property rights. Carib ethnicity is based partly on phenotype—by no means universally shared—and the institution of the chief, whose role has been to protect the reserve from all forms of outsider encroachment. The Carib also maintain a strict rule that only children of Carib men have the right to use reserve land.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Real property
- Inheritance
- Household
- Community heads
- Community councils
- External relations
- Public welfare
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1783-1971
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dominica
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nancy H. Owen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 392-393)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64005713
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Black Carib Indians