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The sleepers of Roraima : a Carib trilogy
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ISBN: 0571092721 9780571092727 Year: 1970 Publisher: London : Faber & Faber,


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The age of the rainmakers
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ISBN: 0571094635 9780571094639 Year: 1971 Publisher: London : Faber & Faber,


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Antigua and the Antiguans : a full account of the colony and its inhabitants.
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ISBN: 0511919697 1108027776 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Antigua was named by Columbus in 1493, and permanently colonised by the British in 1632. The next two hundred years were full of upheaval that shaped the Caribbean island's identity: bloody battles, agricultural progress, British immigration and the establishment and then the abolition of the slave trade. The British-born author adopted Antigua as her home, and her love for the island is evident in both volumes. Legends, stories and particular island features of interest are introduced through the author's experiences and anecdotes, giving a full picture of Antigua at the turn of the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when the island's population and landscape changed rapidly and irrevocably. Volume 2 focusses on the island's natural history and the customs, character and changing position in society of the Caribs and the imported black slave population. An overview of the changes during the period of the slave trade in the Caribbean.

Individual and society in Guiana
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ISBN: 0521264537 0521269970 0511558112 9780521264532 9780521269971 9780511558115 Year: 1984 Volume: 51 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Rivière employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as socially fluid and amorphous, are in fact much more highly structured than they first appear, and he identifies certain common patterns of social organization that result from sets of individual choices and relationships. By contrasting the characteristics of Guianan society with those from elsewhere in Lowland South America, he constructs a spectrum of complexity of Amerindian social structure, and argues that the Guianan variant represents the logically simplest form of organization in the area.

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