Los garínagu en Centroamérica y otros lugares. Identidades de una población afro-caribe entre la tradición y la modernidad

Abstract

In this article, the ethnogenesis of the Garínagu on the Lesser Antilles and their migratory history on the coast of Central America is briefly presented. Since the 1960’s, the Garínagu have increasingly emigrated to the big cities of the United States, mainly to New York and Miami. The object is to undertake a first analysis of the multiform, dynamic relationships, the migrants maintained with their sending society over the generations by taking the example of a Garifuna community in Guatemala. The vivid traditional celebrations of this people as well as the religious rituals not only play a central part in their transnational practices but serve at the same time as a motor of a revitalization process.