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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Garifuna"”.
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Forced Migration and Population Expansion: The Genetic Story of the Garifuna
The Garifuna are an admixed population that are found on St. Vincent Island in the Lesser Antilles and in over 60 villages in Central American, stretching along the coasts of Belize to Nicaragua. They were born out of admixture between the last native inhabitants of the Caribbean and escaped …
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Origins and Genetic Structure of the Garifuna Population of Central America
… and relocation, and this study focuses on the Garifuna peoples of Belize and their predecessors in the Caribbean, the Black Carib of St. Vincent Island. The population which resides in the Carib Indian reserve on the island of Dominica, where the population is thought to be a relic of the …
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Marriage in death : ritual representations of Belizean Garifuna ('Black Carib') society.
The Garifuna, an Afro-Amerindian people, were deported from St . Vincent by the British in 1797. About 70,000 Garinagu (pl. form) now inhabit the coastal zone of Central America from Nicaragua to Belize. In the sparsely-populated southern half of Belize Garinagu live in discrete coastal settlements …
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El uso y el mantenimiento de la lengua: Garifuna en Sangrelaya, Honduras
Garifuna is a language spoken by thousands of people in Central America and in the United States. It is considered a mixed language of Arawak and Caribe descent. It has been demonstrated that indigenous languages in much of the world face endangerment; Garifuna is no exception. In many communities, …
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Garifuna: the birth and rise of an identity through contact langugage and contact culture
Garífuna is the language of the Garífuna people, African descendants who live mostly on the Atlantic coast of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras (including some communities in the United States). Labeled linguistically as an Arawak language, Garífuna also displays influences from other languages as a …
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Indigenous identity in a contested land : a study of the Garifuna of Belize's Toledo district
… and externally. However, another people – the Garifuna – have also resided in Toledo since before British colonisation. Despite their long shared history in the Toledo district, the Garifuna absence from the Maya land rights case was notable. This interdisciplinary thesis places the Garifuna at …
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African palm and Afro-indigenous resistance: Race and dispossession of Garifuna lands on Honduras' northern coast
<p>This thesis seeks to connect the Honduran state’s need for capital accumulation, it’s almost myopic focus on agro-industrialization and dispossessing Garífuna from lands valued for African palm production, and finally how the Garífuna have been able to effectively resist the state’s attempts to …
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Lebensformen zwischen 'Hier' und 'Dort' - Transnationale Migration und Wandel einer garifuna Gemeinde in Guatemala und New York
Die Garinagu oder Garifuna sind eine afro-amerindianische Bevölkerungsgruppe, die seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert an der Küste von Belize, Guatemala, Honduras und Nikaragua siedelt und seit 1960 in zunehmendem Maße in die USA emigriert. Die vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit dem …
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Cayes, Coral, Tourism and Ethnicity in Belize
… a peninsula occupied by separate ethnic groups (Garifuna and Creole) that is located on a peninsula in Southern Belize. Seine Bight and Placencia are undergoing a change in economic activity to tourism. The study attempts to understand the role of ethnicity, socio-economic status, amount of …
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"The trawler wreck all": political ecology and a Belizean village
… world economic system. My research with the Garifuna fishermen of Hopkins, Belize, demonstrates the systematic articulations among national export-oriented economic development strategies, rural impoverishment, and environmental degradation. Within a political ecology framework, I document …
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THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE
<p><em>The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking</em> is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance …