Negro Family in British Guiana - Family Structure and Social Status in the Villages

This is Volume IX of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1956 and using language of the time, this monologue looks at the family system in Guianese families.

List of contents

FOREWORD BY MEYER FORTES, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, SECTION I, I. INTRODUCTION, SECTION II, II. THE HOUSEHOLD, III. ECONOMIC FEATURES OF THE HOUSEHOLD GROUP, IV. COMPOSITION OF THE HOUSEHOLD GROUP, V. THE TIME FACTOR IN RELATION TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSEHOLD GROUP, VI. THE NORMS OF DOMESTIC GROUPING, VII. THE KINSHIP SYSTEM AND MARRIAGE, SECTION III, VIII. THE FAMILY SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF GUIANESE SOCIETY, IX. HYPOTHESES AND THE PROBLEM OF 'EXPLANATION', X. CONCLUSION, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Raymond T Smith, Raymond T. Smith, Smith Raymond T.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2013
• EAN: 9780415863292
• ISBN: 978-0-415-86329-2
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: International Library of Sociology
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, REFERENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology: family and relationships, Sociology and anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General