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... retells a rather esoteric story in the European colonization of the Americas: The Couronian episode in the settlement of Tobago. The Duchy of Courland, which is part of modern Latvia, in the seventeenth century under the capable Duke Jacob (1642-1688) developed mercantilist ambitions that culminated...

...Rayford W. Logan The Drum and the Hoe: Life and Lore of the Haitian People . By Courlander Harold . Berkeley , 1960 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography and Discography. Index . Pp. xv , 371 . $10.00 . Copyright 1962...

... , or priests, possess a vast herbology and also offer “cures” through visions and rudimentary psychotherapy. Each houngan is independent and a potent force in molding rural opinion. Courlander and Bastien analyze the nature of Vodoun since it originated in Dahomey and was transplanted to French St...

... examples of early ethnographies are Ortiz, Hampa afro-cubana ; Ortiz, Cuban Counterpoint ; Price-Mars, So Spoke ; Herskovits, Life ; Courlander, Drum ; Hurston, Tell My Horse ; Dunham, Island . For more recent analysis of those ethnographies, see Averill, “Ballad Hunting”; Renda, Taking Haiti...

... benefit by it. Emphasis has been put on West Indian nationalism and the need to develop West Indian nationality, despite the very diverse racial, religious, and national cultural backgrounds of these peoples. An ancient place name in Tobago—the Bay of Courland—leads the reviewer to an interesting...