Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana
Buch, Englisch, Band 65, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
ISBN: 978-0-521-39649-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Is a family system that permits freedom to enter, dissolve, and re-enter sexual unions, that tolerates high illegitimacy rates, and allows a large proportion of households to be headed by women, viable, natural and healthy? This is an appropriate question to ask of many modern industrial societies in the 1980s. Yet a system with just those factors has been in place in the West Indies for 150 years. In this book, Raymond T. Smith explores the extensive family and kinship ties of West Indians in Jamaica and Guyana, and in so doing dispels many of the myths that exist about West Indian family life.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction: assumptions, procedures, methods; 2. Kinship, culture and theory; 3. What is kinship in the West Indies?; 4. The structure of genealogies; 5. Marriage in the formation of West Indian society; 6. Modern marriage and other arrangements; 7. Sex role differentiation; 8. Household and family; 9 Conclusion
