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Kinship and class in the West Indies, a genealogical study of Jamaica and Guyana, Raymond T. Smith

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Kinship and class in the West Indies, a genealogical study of Jamaica and Guyana, Raymond T. Smith

Language

eng

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kinship and class in the West Indies

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

726824156

Responsibility statement

Raymond T. Smith

Series statement

Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology, 65Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

a genealogical study of Jamaica and Guyana

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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