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CaribAmerican Indian people who inhabited the Lesser Antilles and parts of the South American coast at the time of the Spanish conquest. The Island Carib (now extinct) were a warlike, individualistic people who reportedly practiced cannibalism (the term derives from their name). Carib groups on the mainland, some of whom still survive, lived in the Guianas and as far south as the Amazon River; they subsisted by hunting and growing crops and were less aggressive than their island relatives. Carib 1. a member of a group of American Indian peoples of NE South America and the Lesser Antilles 2. the family of languages spoken by these peoples How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In his text on Garifuna ancestor rituals, Byron Foster (1994, 11) states that Garifuna and Garinagu are simply Africanizations of the pronunciation of the Island Carib (the Carib-Arawak people) words karifuna and kalinago. |
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