Open Accessenseignements de l’expérience amérindienne Kalinago sur les risques naturels dans les Antilles françaises
Author(s) -
Guillaume Lalubie,
Jean-Raphaël Gros-Désormeaux,
Lise Tupiassú
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista da ufmg/revista da universidade federal de minas gerais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2316-770X
DOI - 10.35699/2316-770x.2020.21461
Subject(s) - archipelago , martinique , west indies , geography , natural hazard , volcano , caribbean island , natural disaster , resilience (materials science) , natural (archaeology) , indigenous , ethnology , history , archaeology , ecology , geology , seismology , meteorology , biology , physics , thermodynamics
The French West Indies are made up of the islands of Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy, the northern part of the island of Saint-Martin and the Guadeloupe Archipelago. Through the vocabulary of the Native Americans who lived in this region, it is possible to bring out their finesse of analysis to describe different intensity gradients concerning natural hazards. The research has identified that all natural hazards are mentioned except the volcanic eruptions that were very frequent. From the discussion of the concepts of cultural resilience and culture of resilience, we conclude that this society certainly had a perception of volcanoes with a different time scale than ours, adapted to the impact of hazards and their real threats for their way of life.