The Handbook of South American Indians, Vol 1 – The Marginal Tribes

Steward, Julian H., The Handbook of South American Indians, Vol 1 – The Marginal Tribes, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, 1946.

Sections:

1. Indians of Southern South America
2. Indians of the Gran Chaco
3. The Indians of Eastern Brazil.

The Handbook of South American Indians is a monographic series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in ethnographic studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution between 1940 and 1947.[1] In 1932, Baron Erland Nordenskiöld agreed to edit the series for the National Research Council Division of Anthropology and Psychology; however, he died that year. The Smithsonian Institution agreed to sponsor the series but adequate funds were not approved by US Congress until 1940. Julian Steward edited the series. Ultimately, over a hundred scholars from Latin America, the United States, and Europe contributed and provided advice for the series.[1] This six-volume series, with an additional index volume, documents information about Indigenous peoples of South America, including cultural and physical aspects of the people, language family, history, and prehistory. This is a reference work for historians, anthropologists, other scholars, and the general reader. The series utilizes noted authorities for each topic. The set is illustrated, indexed, and has extensive bibliographies.

El Grito de Lares

Cruz Monclova, Lidio, El Grito de Lares, San Juan: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 1968.

El Grito de Lares Fue una revolución armada ocurrida el 23 de septiembre de 1868 con el propósito de independizar a Puerto Rico del dominio español.
Himno de Lares En las verdes montañas de Lares y en la lucha con la adversidad, nuestros padres lanzaron el grito, aquel primer grito de libertad.
Anualmente, la plaza de Lares se convierte en el escenario no sólo de la recordación de lo sucedido, sino de las denuncias de injusticias socio políticas. El Grito de Lares ha despertado la atención de historiadores, educadores, políticos y artistas, entre otros que les interesan la emancipación social.

Lidio Cruz Monclova:

Historiador, educador, abogado. Se distinguió por su amplia contribución al campo de la historiografía puertorriqueña, particularmente en lo relacionado a la historia del siglo XIX. Fue uno de los primeros profesores puertorriqueños que impartió clases en el Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en Río Piedras. (…) Fue reconocido como miembro de la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua, de la Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia, de la Academia Colombiana de la Historia, de la Academia Guatemalteca de la Historia, de la Academia Española de la Lengua y de la Academia Española de la Historia.

Luis Muñoz Marín

Hett, Gunter, Luis Muñoz Marín, San Juan: Gunter Hett, 1964.

Told to me anecdotally by anonymous source:

Gunter Hett was the Chief Photographer of the San Juan Star. He was a soldier in the German army during World War II and always said that he fought on the Eastern front against the Russians.

Annales des Antilles # 2 (Journal)

Cotrell, René, Annales des Antilles, Bulletin de la Société d'histoire de la Martinique, Année 1955, No. 2.

lndice:

1. Plantations d'Amérique et Papiers de famille, par M. Debien.

2. Courants de migration et courants commerciaux vers la Martinique, par J. Petitjean-Roget.

3. Le petit monde bigourdan de Saint-Domingue au XVIIIe siècle, par R. Massio.

4. Mode d’appropriation des terres, par Me. G. Despotes.

5. Histoire religieuse des Antilles Françaises, par E. Goyheneche.

DOCUMENTS

Journal d’un Officier La fin de Saint-Pierre – De Kermoison.

French Guiana: Myths and Realities

Lowenthal, David, French Guiana: Myths and Realities, reprinted from Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1 May 1960.

David Lowenthal FBA (26 April 1923 – 15 September 2018) was an American historian and geographer, renowned for his work on heritage. He is credited with having made heritage studies a discipline in its own right.
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Lowenthal served as a research analyst for the US Department of State from 1945 to 1946. From 1952 to 1956, he was an assistant professor of history at Vassar College. He then undertook several postings, between the US, Caribbean, and the UK. From 1956 to 1970 at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, he was a history lecturer, research associate, and a consultant to the Vice Chancellor. From 1958 to 1972, he was also a research associate at the American Geographical Society. Between 1961 and 1972 he worked at the Institute of Race Relations in London. He was a professor of geography at University College London (UCL) 1972 to 1985 and remained an emeritus professor there until his death.

Fécondité et Famille en Martinique: Faits, Attitudes et Opinions

Leridon, Henri, Elisabeth Zucker & Maïté Cazenave, Fécondité et famille en Martinique: faits, attitudes et opinions, Travaux et documents (Institut national d'études démographiques (France)); cahier no. 56. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1970.

Fécondité et famille en Martinique: faits, attitudes et opinions. Présentation d'un cahier de l'I.N.E.D, Population, Année 1970 25-1 pp. 125-128.

De l'introduction:

Afin de faire le point sur les problèmes liés à la fécondité, la préfecture de la Martinique a demandé à l'I.N.E.D., en liaison avec l'I.N.S.E.E., de mener un enquête spécifique. Cette enquête devait répondre à plusieurs objectifs; outre l'apport des données de fait sur la structure familiale, les types d'unions et le rythme des naissances, elle devait renseigner sur la connaissance que les Martiniquaises ont des méthodes de régulation des naissances, sur les attitudes à l'égard de la dimension de la famille et de l'utilisation des différents procédés contraceptifs, et sur la pratique des méthodes de régulation des naissances.
Cette sorte d'enquête se rattache aux études dites de "type C.A.P." - des mots connaissance (C), attitude (A) et pratique (P), tels qu'ils ont été définis plus haut - qui ont été faites dans plus de trente pays, le plus souvent à la demande des gouvernements désireux de définir une politique familiale adaptée aux conditions de leurs pays. Ces études ont eu le mérite de réfuter certains préjugés souvent répandus, et de remédier à l'insuffisance des renseignements fournis par les recensements et les statistiques de l'etat civil sur les comportements des familles en matière de procréation. Grâce à ces enquêtes, on dispose d'informations sur la variabilité des vœux d'une population quant à la dimension de la famille, sur les raisons qui poussent les familles à décider du nombre de leurs enfants et de l'echelonnement des naissances, ainsi que sur leur connaissance des méthodes traditionnelles et modernes de limitation des naissances et leur volonté de les utiliser.

Excerpt from introduction:

In order to take stock of the problems related to fertility, the prefecture of Martinique asked the I.N.E.D., in liaison with the I.N.S.E.E., to carry out a specific survey. This survey had to meet several objectives; in addition to providing factual data on family structure, types of unions and birth rate, it was to provide information on the knowledge that Martiniquan women have of birth control methods, on attitudes towards family size and the use of different contraceptive methods, and on the practice of birth control methods.
This type of survey is related to so-called "KAP type" studies - of the words knowledge (C), attitude (A) and practice (P), as they have been defined above - which have been made in more than thirty countries, most often at the request of governments wishing to define a family policy adapted to the conditions of their countries. These studies have had the merit of refuting certain often widespread prejudices, and of remedying the inadequacy of the information provided by censuses and vital statistics on the behavior of families with regard to procreation. Thanks to these surveys, we have information on the variability of the wishes of a population with regard to the size of the family, on the reasons which lead families to decide on the number of their children and the timing of births, as well as than on their knowledge of traditional and modern birth control methods and their willingness to use them.

Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

Stedman, John Gabriel, Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam, Ed. Rudolf van Lier, Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press, 1971.

Reviewed by Gert Oostindie.

Landeg White’s Ph.D. thesis Stedman’s Narrative: Its Origins & Transformations.

Journal Article by Mario Klarer: Humanitarian Pornography: John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam".

John Gabriel Stedman (1744 – 7 March 1797) was a Dutch-born Scottish soldier who wrote The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796). This narrative covers his years in Suriname as a soldier in the Dutch military deployed to assist local troops fighting against groups of escaped slaves.[1] He first recorded his experiences in a personal diary that he later rewrote and expanded into the Narrative. The Narrative was a bestseller of the time and, with its firsthand depictions of slavery and other aspects of colonialism, became an important tool in the fledgling abolitionist movement. When compared with Stedman's personal diary, his published Narrative is a sanitized and romanticized version of Stedman's time in Surinam.