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

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

Smith, Raymond T.
Fortes, Meyer
Leach, Edmund

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Book 65

Anthropology

ISBN10: 0521396492
ISBN13: 9780521396493
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 13 1990
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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