Slaves, Free Men, Citizens - CIFAS

LAMBROS COMTTAS is Professor of Anthropology and Education,Director of both the Center for Education in Latin Americaand the Center for Urban Studies and Programs, and AssociateDirector of the Division of Philosophy and Social Sciences atTeachers College, Columbia University. He is also Associate Directorof the Research Institute for the Study of Man, an institutionfor research and scholarship of the Caribbean. Mr. Cornitaswas awarded a Fulbright Graduate Study Grant (1957-58) anda Guggenheim Fellowship (1971-72) and has done field retearehin Barbados, Jamaica, Bolivia, and the DominicanRepublic. He has written numerous articles, was editor of Caribbeana1900-1965: A Topical Bibliography, and serves as consultantor editor for several publishing projects.DAVID LOWENTHAL, a geographer and historian, has devotedtwenty years to research on the West Indies. He has taught atVassar College and has been visiting professor at a number ofuniversities in the United States and at the University of theWest ladies, where he was Fulbright Research Fellow at theInstitute of Social and Economic Research (1956-57). During1961-62 he worked in the Lesser Antilles with the assistanceof a Rockefeller Foundation research grant and later receiveda Guggenheirn Fellowship. Until 1972 he waa Secretary and RearchAssociate at the American Geographical Society, and heis currently Professor of Geography at University College, London.His most recent book is West Indian Societies, a comprehensiveitudy of the non-Hispanic Caribbean.few books, edited and introduced by Lambroa Cornitas andDavid Lowenthal, provide a broad variety of material on the! West ladies; each has the subtitle West Indian Perspectives:SLAVES, FREE MEN, CITIZENSWORK AND FAMILY LIFECONSEQUENCES OF CLASS AND COLORTVS AFTERMATH OF SOVEREIONTYSLAVES, FREE MEN,CITIZENSWest Indian PerspectivesEdited and Introduced byLambros Comitas and David LowenthalAnchor BooksAnchor Press/DoubledavGarden City, New York, 1973