Americas, Sociocultural Overviews: Caribbean

TY - ENCYC

T1 - Americas, Sociocultural Overviews: Caribbean

AU - Olwig, Karen Fog

PY - 2015/3/26

Y1 - 2015/3/26

N2 - The modern Caribbean emerged through the transformations that took place with European colonization, which resulted in the establishment of large-scale plantation societies and the repopulation of the area with Europeans, Africans, and Asians. This resulted in societies that are stratified in terms of race and class, culturally diverse and highly mobile. Key issues in research on sociocultural aspects of the area include African continuities, the cohesion of societies, the coexistence of contradictory value systems linked to colonial and local frameworks of life and their (re)interpretation in everyday life, the role of out-migration, and the development of transnational sociocultural systems.

AB - The modern Caribbean emerged through the transformations that took place with European colonization, which resulted in the establishment of large-scale plantation societies and the repopulation of the area with Europeans, Africans, and Asians. This resulted in societies that are stratified in terms of race and class, culturally diverse and highly mobile. Key issues in research on sociocultural aspects of the area include African continuities, the cohesion of societies, the coexistence of contradictory value systems linked to colonial and local frameworks of life and their (re)interpretation in everyday life, the role of out-migration, and the development of transnational sociocultural systems.

U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12171-3

DO - 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12171-3

M3 - Encyclopedia chapter

VL - 1

SP - 638

EP - 643

BT - International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

A2 - Wright, James D.

PB - Elsevier

ER -