In 'Caribbean Contours' eight leading scholars in the humanities and the social sciences survey the history, politics, economics, demography, and culture of the Caribbean to provide an authoritative yet accessible introduction to this complex and geographically fragmented region.

Sidney W. Mintz is professor of anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Worker in the Cane, Caribbean Transformations, and Sweetness and Power. Sally Price, also a Johns Hopkins anthropologist, has co-written Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest and Co-wives and Calabashes.