Caribbean Research

Even though there are many countries in the Caribbean they have a shared history. Prehistoric people moved between the Islands, enslaved African were sold by plantation owners and moved to new countries, political ideologies have been developed and shared, and economic development has seen companies moving all over the region. This section is designed to show what new research is being undertaken.

IACA/MAC Project

As part of a cooperative project between IACA and MAC to learn, preserve and educate the people of the Caribbean we are requesting each of us to help compile a useable database of where the heritage objects and records of the Caribbean exist in the world. It is the not the intention of this IACA/MAC project to demand the return of these objects and records, but rather to identify where they are stored.

Many of these Caribbean heritage objects and records have been spread around the globe in the five centuries of world integration since the time of Columbus, and thus the goal of this project is to compile a database of the tangible and intangible (knowledge) for future research.

IACA and MAC are hereby requesting that each of us send in a list of where we know materials about or from the Caribbean are deposited. Of special interest are those collections that are no longer being studied at the institution where they are stored. Collectors' collections without complete documentation are of interest and are useable for educational programs. Please include a list of as many reports or papers presented about any Caribbean topic from archaeology to zoology about which you know.

Our goal is to have on both of our websites a list with brief descriptions and a link to a storage facility or journal. This will be an evolving project that should be largely complete by the 50th anniversary of IACA in 2011.

If you are able to help please contact either IACA or MAC

Thank you and we await your positive contribution to this project.