CULTURAL ACCOUNTING - AN EXAMPLE FROM A SMALL CARIBBEAN ISLAND

A cultural accounting matrix (CAM) is a means of describing and analyz ing the cultural division of labor in socially and economically segmen ted societies. This paper explains the background to the CAM approach and applies it to a small Caribbean island. The analysis involves iden tifying the way in which the present-day division of labor between the principal resident populations of the Island has arisen and calculati ng inter-relational income distribution multipliers between the popula tions.