Kinship And Class In The West Indies

Author : Raymond T. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521396493
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Class in the West Indies written by Raymond T. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Women and Development Studies Project. Seminar
Publisher : Canoe Press
ISBN 13 : 9789768125552
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender in Caribbean Development written by University of the West Indies (Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago). Women and Development Studies Project. Seminar and published by Canoe Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 23 papers originally published in 1988 which discuss, inter alia, interdisciplinary research on models and theories of gender and development, historical perspectives of feminism, ideology and culture, and women's organization.

Author : Raymond T. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136659668
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Matrifocal Family written by Raymond T. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Elaine Bauer
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089642358
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creolisation of London Kinship written by Elaine Bauer and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of "mixed-race" in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this population. Making an indelible contribution to both kinship research and wider social debates, the book emphasises a long-term evolution of family relationships across generations. Individuals are followed through changing social and historical contexts, seeking to understand in how far many of these transformations may be interpreted as creolisation. Examined, too, are strategies and innovations in relationship construction, the social constraints put upon them, the special significance of women and children in kinship work and the importance of non-biological as well as biological notions of family relatedness. -- P. [4] of cover.

Author : Raymond T. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136659595
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Matrifocal Family written by Raymond T. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135306133
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Culture, Island Identity written by Karen Fog Olwig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-05 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.

Author : Audrey Allwood
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030545989
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Belonging in Brixton written by Audrey Allwood and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a unique perspective on elderly working-class West Indian migrants in the UK, particularly examining how they negotiate their sense of belonging. Utilizing the life span gaze and including elements of oral history and narrative, this ethnography provides rich insight into the ordinary lives, migratory circumstances, social networks, and interactions with the state as residents in a sheltered housing scheme in Brixton, London. The author further compiles a variety of genealogy charts, providing a uniquely vivid scholarly analysis of the Caribbean migrant experience both in a “place” and through space and time. Ultimately, this work contemplates how communities face change whilst at once developing a local symbolic cultural site, navigating adaptation to new economic and social environments.

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351520369
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Love in the Diaspora written by Mary Chamberlain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial social policy in the British West Indies from the nineteenth century onward assumed that black families lacked morals, structure, and men, a void that explained poverty and lack of citizenship. African-Caribbean families appeared as the mirror opposite of the "ideal" family advocated by the white, colonial authorities. Yet contrary to this image, what provided continuity in the period and contributed to survival was in fact the strength of family connections, their inclusivity and support. This study is based on 150 life story narratives across three generations of forty-five families who originated in the former British West Indies. The author focuses on the particular axes of Caribbean peoples from the former British colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, and Great Britain. Divided into four parts, the chapters within each present an oral history of migrant African-Caribbean families, demonstrating the varieties, organization, and dynamics of family through their memories and narratives. It traces the evolution of Caribbean life; argues how the family can be seen as the tool that helps transmit and transform historical mentalities; examines the dynamics of family life; and makes comparisons with Indo-Caribbean families. Above all, this is a story of families that evolved, against the odds of slavery and poverty, to form a distinct Creole form, through which much of the social history of the English-speaking Caribbean is refracted. "Family Love in the Diaspora" offers an important new perspective on African-Caribbean families, their history, and the problems they face, for now and the future. It offers a long overdue historical dimension to the debates on Caribbean families.

Author : Marcia C. Inhorn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789209005
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waithood written by Marcia C. Inhorn and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas, including the Middle East Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S, revealing that whether voluntary or involuntary, the phenomenon of youth waithood necessitates a recognition of new gender and family roles.

Author : Bill Maurer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472086931
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recharting the Caribbean written by Bill Maurer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaves a story of statecraft and law making, of power and the construction of identity