Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana
(Book #65 in the Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521396492
ISBN13:9780521396493
Release Date:October 1990
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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