ISBN:
9780415912143
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (518 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Matrifocal Family : Power, Pluralism and Politics
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter One Introduction; PART ONE: Kinship and Family Structure; Chapter Two Hypotheses and the Problem of Explanation; Chapter Three Culture and Social Structure in the Caribbean; Chapter Four The Matrifocal Family; Chapter Five Hierarchy and the Dual Marriage System in West Indian Society; Chapter Six Family, Social Change, and Social Policy in the West Indies; PART TWO: Conflict and Difference: Race, Culture, and Politics; Chapter Seven Plural Society Theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Eight Caste and Social Status Among the Indians of Guyana (coauthored with Chandra Jayawardena)Chapter Nine Race and Class in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean; Chapter Ten Living in the Gun Mouth: Race, Class, and Political Violence in Guyana; Chapter Eleven On the Disutility of the Notion of "Ethnic Group" for Understanding Status Struggles in the Modern World; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
