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Garifuna Across Central America

Community

⚠ ONE PEOPLE, FOUR COUNTRIES, AND AN ORIGIN IN A FIFTH. The Garifuna were deported from SAINT VINCENT to Roatán in 1797 and spread along the Caribbean coast into HONDURAS (much the largest population), BELIZE, GUATEMALA and NICARAGUA. Their language is ARAWAKAN with Carib and later French, Spanish and English layers — unusual in the Americas for being an Indigenous South American language spoken by an Afro-descendant people. Their language, dance and music are UNESCO-inscribed. The foodway: bitter and sweet CASSAVA processed into EREBA, the flat cassava bread, using the ruguma press; HUDUT — fish in coconut milk with pounded green and ripe plantain; TAPADO/tapou, the coconut seafood soup; cassava, plantain, coconut, fish, and a great deal of coconut milk. ⚠ GARIFUNA FOODWAYS ARE A ROOT IN THIS CORPUS. They are not filed under any one country.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Garifuna community documented

Languages: Garifuna

What is recorded

  • The Garifuna are recorded as one people across Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua, deported from Saint Vincent in 1797, with Honduras holding the largest population. Garifuna is an Arawakan language with Carib and later European layers, notable as an Indigenous South American language spoken by an Afro-descendant population. Garifuna language, dance and music are inscribed by UNESCO. Garifuna foodways are recorded as a root entity and are not filed under any single country. documented
  • The Garifuna are deported from Saint Vincent by the British and landed on Roatán, from where they spread along the Caribbean coast of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua. documented
  • UNESCO proclaims the Language, Dance and Music of the Garifuna a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • originates from Saint Vincent and the Garifuna documented

    Deported from Saint Vincent to Roatán in 1797 and spread along the Caribbean coast into Honduras, Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

  • part of Garifuna Foodways documented

    ⚠ Garifuna foodways are a root. This row is their Central American presence, not a re-parenting.

Recorded as relating to this foodway

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