An Anthropological Interpretation of the Social History of the Caribbean

FAIN: FT-13318-77

Sidney W. Mintz
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)

To research, as part of a general social history of the Caribbean, from an anthropological perspective: (1) forms of labor in Caribbean history; (2) relationships between forms of labor and the emergency of racial and ethnic systems of classification^ and (3) the similarities and differences between Caribbean aesthetic (literary products) and the realities of Caribbean life they purport to depict.