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GEOG 100: Day 23

GEOG 100: Day 23. A Medley of Things. Housekeeping Items. There will be some Garifuna drummers from Belize performing in the Cafeteria Thursday 12:00 to 1:15. The Garifunas derive from runaway slaves who intermarried with indigenous Caribs and Arawaks in the jungles of Belize.

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GEOG 100: Day 23

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  1. GEOG 100: Day 23 A Medley of Things

  2. Housekeeping Items • There will be some Garifuna drummers from Belize performing in the Cafeteria Thursday 12:00 to 1:15. The Garifunas derive from runaway slaves who intermarried with indigenous Caribs and Arawaks in the jungles of Belize. • According to Wikipedia, “[An English governor] Young recorded the arrival of the African descended population as commencing with a wrecked slave ship from the Bight of Biafra in 1675. The survivors, members of the Mokko people of today's Nigeria (now known as Ibibio), reached the small island of Bequia, where the Caribs brought them to Saint Vincent and intermarried with them by supplying the African men with wives as it was taboo in their society for men to go unwed.” Through a complex set of events they wound up on the mainland in Belize.

  3. Housekeeping Items • Corentin, Jared, and Max mentioned that the Yoruba people were especially hard hit by the slave trade. They were brought to the Caribbean nations of Cuba and Haiti, and also to the future U.S. and Brazil, but aspects of their culture managed to survive. Not only their music, but their traditional religion (along with with that of Fon and Ewe people) – what popularly and somewhat stereotypically came to be known as “voodoo” (a corruption of voudon). • The actual religion with its various gods and spirits is quite different than the popular misconception. It was quite strong in Louisiana and is still quite strong in Haiti and, to a lesser degree, in Cuba where it is known as santería. • I will hand back the mid-terms, but first I want to briefly go through the grammar tips I gave you on the handout. • After I will show the short film on Tuvalu.

  4. Grammar Tips • In addition to the ones on the sheet, common errors that I encounter include: “less and less resources” should read “fewer and fewer resources”. • “amounts of jobs” should read “numbers of jobs”. • “a country who’s population” should read “a country whose population”. • “a countries employment rate” should read “a country’s employment rate” • “there belief system” should read “their belief system” • “this effects the populations” should read “this affects the population” • “is displayed to have” should read “is displayed as having”

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