Indian Village in Guyana: A Study of Cultural Change and Ethnic Identity |
Contents
Some Research Problems | 8 |
112 | 12 |
The Development of a MultiRacial Society | 20 |
Plantations in Guyana by 1769 | 21 |
Land Peoples and Cultures of Guyana | 32 |
Annual Rainfall Distribution | 34 |
Administrative Structure | 38 |
Common terms and phrases
activities agricultural Amerindians anthropology Arya Samaj awee basic Berbice Brahmin bride and groom bride's father British British Guiana Caribbean caste system cent colony continuities and changes Corentyne River Crabwood Creek cultural continuities cultural segments Demarara developed Dharma East Indian community East Indian culture East Indian group economic endogamy ethnic group ethnic identity farmers females function Furnivall Georgetown gift girl Guyanese Hindu Hinduism household immigrants indentured laborers Indian society Indians in Crabwood Indians in Guyana informants institutions investigator involved land living major males marriage Marua Negroes Nuptial Pole occasion occupations older Pandit parents participation persons plantations planters plural society political population problems Public Road Rauf Rauf's relationship religion religious rice fields Rosignol sacred Sanatan Dharma sawmilling Skeldon slaves Smith social Springland structure sugar estates sugar plantations Surinam symbols tend tion traditional Indian Varna village of Crabwood Yagya younger