Wild Majesty: Encounters With Caribs From Columbus To The Present Day, An Anthology

This Book Presents An Anthology Of Writings About The Amerindian Inhabitants Of The Caribbean, From Such Diverse Sources As The First Reports Of Columbus, French Missionary Tracts, The Diaries Of English Colonial Administrators, And Modern Ethnographers, Travel Writers, And Film Makers. This Material Has Been Carefully Selected To Illustrate The Development Of Non-amerindian Knowledge Of And Attitudes Towards The Society And Culture Of The So-called 'island Caribs', Who Once Dominated The Whole Of The Lesser Antilles And Who Continue To Act Today As A Potent Symbol Of Resistance To, And Independence From, The Modern Nation-state. -- Publisher Description. The Letter Of Columbus (1493) -- The Journal Of Columbus (1492-1493) -- The Report Of Dr. Chanca (1494) -- The Captivity Of Luisa De Navarrete (1580) -- Early English And French Voyagers (1564-1596) -- The Voyage Of The Olive Branch (1606-1607) -- Thomas Gage: The Jesuit Massacre On Guadeloupe (1648) -- The Case Of 'indian' Warner (1657-1676) -- The First Missionary: Raymond Breton (1647) -- Relative Values: Charles César De Rochefort (1658) -- Jean Baptiste Du Tertre And The Noble Savages (1667) -- An Account From The Jesuit Missions: Sieur De La Borde (1674) -- Jean Baptiste Labat: A Sojourn On Dominica (1722) -- First Reconnaissances Of The Black Caribs (1700-1723) -- The Diary Of Joseph Senhouse (1776) -- Thomas Cokes's Letter To Wesley (1788) -- William Young And The Black Charaibs (1772/1795) -- William Young's Tour Of The Islands (1791) -- Alexander Anderson And The Carib War In St. Vincent (1798) -- Priests And Chiefs On Dominica (1856-1905) -- The Ornithological Eye: Frederick Ober (1880) -- The Carib Reserve: Henry Hesketh Bell (1902) -- Frederick Treves And Victorine (1908). The 'carib War' Of 1930 -- Visiting The Carib Quarter: Jean Rhys (1936) -- Anthropologist Of The Caribs: Douglas Taylor (1941)-- History In The Movie-making: Elma Napier (1949) -- The Hittites Of The Caribbean: Patrick Leigh Fermor (1950) -- Whicker's Caribs: Alan Whicker (1964) -- Still Conquering The Caribbean: Anthony Weller (1983) -- Carib Gallery: José Barreiro (1990). Edited By Peter Hulme And Neil L. Whitehead. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.