Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
This collection of 22 documents describe the Garifuna, also called Black Caribs, who live on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua, Honduras and Belize. The time period covered is from 1000 to 2000. Fieldwork covers a time span of almost 50 years from 1947 to 1993. Nine of the documents are doctoral dissertations. Basic ethnographies are provided by Taylor, Coelho, and Munroe. Historical perspectives of Garifuna cultural formation are provided by Gonzalez and Gullick. Four articles examine ethnic relations with respect to language use and mating/marital patterns. The Garifuna practice of couvade has been a focus of anthropological inquiry, beginning with Munroe. Chernela reinterprets the meaning of the couvade as practiced by the Garifuna. Coe and Anderson survey the region's ethnobotany. Palacio examines the Garifuna food exchange system and more specifically looks at the relationships between food sharing and fosterage, and age and residence patterns. Other topics covered include language shift in relation to new class formation and ethnic identity, gender roles, women's role in social organization, the control of young women's sexual behavior by older women, ethnomedicine, folk songs, and spirit possession
Note:
Culture summary: Garifuna - Nancie L. Solien González, Ian Skoggard (file evaluation and indexing notes), and John Beierle (indexing notes) - 2005 -- - Sojourners of the Caribbean: ethnogenesis and ethnohistory of the Garifuna - [by] Nancie L. Gonzalez - 1988 -- - Black Carib household structure: a study of migration and modernization - [by] Nancie L. Gonzßlez - 1969 -- - Exiled from St. Vincent: the development of Black Carib culture in Central America up to 1945 - [by] C.J.M.R. Gullick - 1976 -- - Women and the ancestors: Black Carib kinship and ritual - [by] Virginia Kerns - 1983 -- - Interpreting signs of illness: a case study in medical semiotics - [by] Kathryn Vance Staiano - 1986 -- - Heart drum: spirit possession in the communities of Belize - [by] Byron Foster - 1986 -- - The Black Carib of British Honduras - Douglas MacRae Taylor - 1951 --
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- The Black Carib of Honduras: a study in acculturation - By Ruy Coelho - 1955 [1989 copy ] -- - Carib folk songs and Carib culture - [by] Richard Eugene Hadel - 1972 [1989 copy ] -- - Food and social relations in a Garifuna village - [by] Joseph Orlando Palacio - 1982 [1989 copy ] -- - Mating as a reproductive strategy: a Black Carib example - [by] Carolyn Sue McCommon - 1982 [1989 copy ] -- - Age as a source of differentiation within a Garifuna village in southern Belize - [by] Joseph O. Palacio - 1987 -- - Gubida illness and religious ritual among the Garifuna of Santa Fe, Honduras: an ethnopsychiatric analysis - [by] Cynthia Chamberlain Bianchi - 1988 [1989 copy ] -- - Language shift and the redefinition of social boundaries among the Caribs of Belize - [by] Pamela Ann Wright - 1986 [1989 copy ] -- - Garifuna children's language shame: ethnic stereotypes, national affiliation, and transnational immigration as factors in language choice - Donna M. Bonner - 2001 --
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- Symbolic interaction in rituals of gender and procreation among the Garifuna (Black Caribs) of Honduras - Janet M. Chernela - 1991 -- - Sexuality and social control among the Garifuna (Belize) - Virginia Kerns - 1985 -- - Ethnographic setting: the major socio-cultural forms of the Black Carib of Punta Gorda, British Honduras - by Robert Leon Munroe - [April, 1964] -- - Kin ties, food and remittances in a Garifuna village in southern Belize - Joseph Palacio - 1991 -- - Past and present evidence of interethnic mating - Virginia Kerns - 1984 -- - Ethnicity and mating patterns in Punta Gorda, Belize - Sheila Cosminsky and Emory Whipple - 1984 -- - Ethnobotany of the Garífuna of eastern Nicaragua - Felix G. Coe and Gregory J. Anderson - 1996
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Garifuna
