Kinship and Class in the West Indies - A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana

This book explores the extensive family and kinship ties of West Indians in Jamaica and Guyana.

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond T. Smith
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor), Edmund Leach (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521396493
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39649-3
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 365 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology