An Indigenous Compendium: Walter E Roth and the Ethnology of British Guiana

This chapter examines the major ethnological works and intellectual context of Walter E Roth in the colony of British Guiana ¹ from 1906, when he transferred to British Guiana, being assigned as the Stipendiary Magistrate and Medical Officer of the Pomeroon District in the north-west region of the colony. He later moved to the Demerara River District, near the capital Georgetown, in the same capacities as magistrate and medic.