Windward Children. A Study in Human Ecology of the Three Dutch Windward Islands in the Caribbean

Keur, John Y. & Dorothy L., Windward Children. A Study in Human Ecology of the Three Dutch Windward Islands in the Caribbean, (Foreword by Vera Rubin), Netherlands: Royal van Gorcum Ltd., 1960.

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The work of the Keurs in the Dutch West Indies, represents a number of important contributions in contemporary research which is interdisciplinary in scope. The combination of ecologist and anthropologist in a husband-wife team makes clear the interplay of culture and environment. They examine the decline of these three small back eddies in the mainstream of the Netherlands Antillean economy – islands which were once the center of a thriving overseas empire known as the “Emporium of the Caribbean” a source of munitions and other supplies for the American Revolution. The study points out marked differences within the various islands of the Netherlands Antilles as well as contrasts with neighboring islands of other nationalities.

Reviewed by H. Hoetink in Caribbean Studies Vol. 1 No. 1, Apr. 1961.

Reviewed in the Nieuwe West-Indische Gids / New West Indian Guide, 43ste Jaarg. (1963-1964).

Reviewed in Ethnohistory, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Summer, 1961).

Reviewed in Rural Sociology, Vol. 26, Iss. 2, (Jun 1, 1961).