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Food and social relations in a Garifuna villageBook 1989 • Palacio, Joseph O.
Garifuna • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central America
This dissertation is a study of the way in which food serves as a means of analyzing social ties among residents of the community of Lisurnia (a pseudonym), a small village in the southern coastal region of Belize (Honduras), and between them and oth...Age as a source of differentiation within a Garifuna village in southern Belizearticle 1987 • Palacio, Joseph O.
Garifuna • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central America
This is a study of the acculturative effects of outside contacts on the social organization of a village community in southern Belize, called Lisurnia (a pseudonym). As the basis of his study Palacio divides the population of this village into specif...Kin ties, food and remittances in a Garifuna village in southern Belizeessay 1991 • Palacio, Joseph O.
Garifuna • Middle America and the Caribbean > Central America
In this paper, Palacio examines household structure and inter-household networks in a poor Garifuna village. He discusses the sharing of food, money, and kin, i.e., fosterage, among households based on their kin ties and obligations. He argues how su...