• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Barama River Carib : SR09
  • Contains: Barama River Carib - Kathleen J. Adams - 2009 -- - The Barama River Caribs of British Guiana - John Gillin - 1936 -- - The Barama River Caribs of Guyana restudied: forty years of cultural adaptation and population change - Kathleen Joy Adams - 1973
  • Contributor: Adams, Kathleen J. [Other]; Gillin, John [Other]
  • Corporation: Human Relations Area Files, Inc
  • imprint: New Haven, Conn: Human Relations Area Files, Inc, 2009
  • Published in: eHRAF World Cultures
  • Language: English
  • RVK notation: LB 24640 : Karibik
  • Keywords: Carib Indians ; Indians of South America--Guyana
  • Reproductino series: eHRAF World Cultures
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  • Description: This collection about the Barama River Carib consists of two documents and a cultural summary that covers cultural, ecological, and historical information collected by professional anthropologists from the 1920s to the 1970s. The Barama River Carib are a small group of indigenous people located in the North West District of Guyana. John Gillin explores relationships between ecology and dominant features of Barama River Carib's social organization and personality as observed in the 1930s. Kathleen Adams studied this community some forty years later. Her work gives particular emphasis to changes observed in Barama River Carib's demography, settlement pattern, and semi-nomadic adaptation to the rain forest as they were being integrated into a national political economy by the Guyanese government