Among the Garifuna
Marilyn McKillop Wells
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"Among the Garifuna: Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast "is an intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twentieth-century Caribbean, offering original insights on daily life, gender, culture, ethnicity, and religion. " Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Among the Garifuna: Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast is an intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twentieth-century Caribbean, offering original insights on daily life, gender, culture, ethnicity, and religion.
Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. They are descendants of the “Black Carib,” whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.
In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn McKillop Wells found herself embarking on an “improbable journey” when she was invited to the area to do ... Read more
Among the Garifuna: Family Tales and Ethnography from the Caribbean Coast is an intimate ethnographic narrative of one indigenous family in the twentieth-century Caribbean, offering original insights on daily life, gender, culture, ethnicity, and religion.
Among the Garifuna is the first ethnographic narrative of a Garifuna family. They are descendants of the “Black Carib,” whom the British deposited on Roatan Island in 1797 and who settled along the Caribbean coast from Belize City to Nicaragua.
In 1980, medical anthropologist Marilyn McKillop Wells found herself embarking on an “improbable journey” when she was invited to the area to do ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817318710
SKU
V9780817318710
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About Marilyn McKillop Wells
Marilyn McKillop Wells is professor emerita of anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. As a medical anthropologist, she conducted fieldwork in Central America, West Africa, East Africa, and Papua New Guinea.
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