Book
Carib folk songs and Carib culture
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1989 • Pages:
By: Hadel, Richard.
Abstract
This work, resulting from an eleven month's stay in the Carib village of Seine Bight, Belize, is divided into two parts. The first part provides general background material on the Garifuna -- history, geography, social organization, subsistence, etc. -- while the second, the major part of this source, deals with Carib folk songs and how they reflect and reaffirm those specific values of the society that created them. The author's stated purpose in the text, however, is not to verify this assumption PER SE, but instead to learn something about the ethos of the Caribs through the context of their folk songs (p. v). Throughout this portion of the text the dominant themes of the folk songs are related to the major themes of Carib life as observed in Seine Bight. These findings were then compared with the results of a projective test -- a modified version of the Sacks Sentence Completion Test -- administered by the author to ten males in the village (see Appendix II, p. 346 ff.). The results of the projective test seem generally to support and confirm the conclusions reached from the analysis of the ethnographic data and folk song texts regarding cultural theme dominance in the society. The complete text of all songs discussed in this source will be found in categories 539 and 533, Appendix I, pp. 169-345.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Central America
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Ethnologist
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field Date
- 1970-1971
- Coverage Date
- 1970-1971
- Coverage Place
- Seine Bight, Belize
- Notes
- [by] Richard Eugene Hadel
- UM73-00447
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-360)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Austin, University of Texas at Austin, 1972
- LCSH
- Garifuna (Caribbean people)