HUMA 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ciboney, Basket Weaving, Island Caribs
25 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Intro to Caribbean Studies
Lecture 3
FILM
Yurumein (Homeland)
-No written record of the “carib dialect”. Difficult to pass on the language because of
this.
Indigenous Cultures
Indigenous arrival in the Caribbean
The land bridge theory
-Indigenous people are believed to have migrated down the spine of the Americas (North
and South) to get to the Caribbean .
-There are many theories as to how they migrated down
The ice bridge theory
-Syberia and Alaska, crossed through the Canadian mountains and went into the America
(South America)
The Circum-Caribbean Theory
-People migrated up from South America and down from central America in different
waves
Sources of historical Information
Literary Evidence
-Ex. Columbus diaries, letters, official documents are all economic records
-Useful source of information about how people felt in the past
Ethno historical accounts
-Ethno historical accounts involved wealthy European men, writing about non-European
people and cultures.
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-Documentation for people outside of that culture.
-Anthropological evidence has been very problematic in non European cultures.
Maintaining racist stereotypes
Archaeological findings
-Bones, pottery, shells
-Funded by north American universities.
They try to understand the past by understanding the objects created by the past.
-Using a little bit of information to infer a lot of information
Petroglyphs
-Rock carvings, and rock paintings.
-Left by indigenous people, when researches examine them they get a sense of their
world views.
Linguistic Evidence
-Recording languages studied and compare the language.
-Tracking the origin of idea how words spread from where to where.
-Can be unreliable and problematic
Oral Sources
-Listening to stories from grandparents
-Family history
-Sometimes they provide alternative stories about the past
-Problematic because it can be difficult to verify, stories change over time.
-BROKEN TELEPHONE
All sources from the past have its pros and cons.
The Ciboney
-Earliest group in the region
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Document Summary
No written record of the carib dialect . Difficult to pass on the language because of this. Indigenous people are believed to have migrated down the spine of the americas (north and south) to get to the caribbean . There are many theories as to how they migrated down. Syberia and alaska, crossed through the canadian mountains and went into the america (south america) People migrated up from south america and down from central america in different waves. Columbus diaries, letters, official documents are all economic records. Useful source of information about how people felt in the past. Ethno historical accounts involved wealthy european men, writing about non-european people and cultures. Documentation for people outside of that culture. Anthropological evidence has been very problematic in non european cultures. They try to understand the past by understanding the objects created by the past. Using a little bit of information to infer a lot of information.
