Glossary
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| ancestor |
One
from whom a person is descended. Frequently, this person is
more remote in the line of descent than a grandparent. |
| deportation |
The act of expelling a person from
his/her country of origin. |
| diaspora |
The breaking up and dispersion of
a people, often far from their ancestral homelands.
The word comes from the Greek word - diasperein -"to
scatter." When it is capitalized as Diaspora it
often refers to the settling of scattered colonies of Jews outside
Palestine after the Babylonian exile. |
| Garinagu |
The Africanized version
of the word, "Garífuna," which many Garífuna
people prefer to be called. This term is typically used when
talking about two or more Garífuna peoples (plural version).
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| Garífuna |
The term applies to one person of
Garífuna heritage (singular version of the word, Garinagu).
It can also be used as an adjective such as "Garífuna
peoples," "Garífuna culture, foods... etc." |
| migration |
The act of moving from
one country or physical location to another. The term migrate
sometimes implies a lack of permanent settlement, particularly
as a result of seasonal or periodic movement. The words emigrate
and immigrate imply a permanent move, generally across
a political boundary. |
Glossary of Key Terms
Arawak
refers to Amerindian aborigines, who migrated from South America to the
Greater Antilles Islands and established a culture based on fishing, hunting,
and cassava farming. Arawak is also the language of these people.
Caribs are Amerindian peoples, who migrated from South America
and conquered the Lesser Antilles and its Arawak populations, initiating
the miscegenation of the two races. Carib is also the language of these
people. Cassava is a tuberous root, which belongs to the manioc
family and is cultivated in the tropical regions of the Americas. The root's
nutritious starch is used to make a variety of foods including tapioca pudding
and casabe (see note below).
Casabe is the Spanish translation for ereba (see ereba below).
Cimarrones are runaway slaves who escaped from European sugar
plantations and settlements in the Antilles Islands in the XVI-XVIII centuries.
They are most commonly African slaves. Dugu is the ………..
Egi is a wooden board with imbedded quartzite or sharp rocks.
This instrument is used to grate cassava in the preparation of ereba.
Ereba is a traditional Garífuna bread made of cassava. This
custom and its elaborate techniques to process the roots and prepare the
bread were adopted from the Arawak.
Encomienda is a system of forced labor, whereby indigenous
peoples are "entrusted" in the care of Spanish colonists in the New World.
Greater Antilles are the larger Caribbean islands of Cuba,
Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Garinagu is the Africanized word for "Garífuna,"
and is most commonly used to describe a multiple of Garífuna peoples. Many
Garífuna people prefer to be called by this name. is the modern-day term
for the Black Caribs, an Afro-Caribbean hybrid race, which
Island Carib are peoples of mixed Arawak and Carib descent,
who primarily settled on Saint Vincent Island and developed a society based
on hunting, fishing, farming, and warfare.
Lesser Antilles are the smaller Caribbean islands
of Guadalupe, Martinique, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Grenada,
Trinidad and Tobago. |
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