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This analysis offers a historical, anthropological perspective on the development of cultural identity in a global context. It does so through a case study of a West Indian community which since the 1600s has incorporated African and European cultural
elements within a common framework of social life, in the process creating the basis for a culturally all-encompassing and geographically unbounded “global” or inclusive culture.
This global culture has become extended to Western metropoles, as viable migrant communities in North America and Britain have become established during the course of this century, influencing the culture of the host societies. This discussion of global
cultural processes therefore offers a historical, anthropological analysis of a phenomenon which has been associated with the “post-modern” times of the contemporary world.