First Published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This collection of papers by a number of eminent anthropologists explores the patterns of ethnicity in the Caribbean. A valuable contribution to current literat

Race and biologized conceptions of ethnicity have been potent factors in the making of the Americas. They remain crucial, even if more ambiguously than before.

Indigenous people and African descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean have long been affected by a social hierarchy established by elites, through which

Naipul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, Trinidad. He offers a record of his impressions there