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

Raymond T. Smith

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511558153

Kinship and Class in the West Indies

A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana

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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A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Maps
pp xi-xiv

1 - Introduction: assumptions, procedures, methods
pp 1-20

2 - Kinship, culture and theory
pp 21-30

3 - What is kinship in the West Indies?
pp 31-46

4 - The structure of genealogies
pp 47-81

5 - Marriage in the formation of west Indian society
pp 82-109

6 - Modern marriage and other arrangements
pp 110-133

7 - Sex role differentiation
pp 134-148

8 - Household and family
pp 149-176

9 - Conclusion
pp 177-184

References
pp 185-194

Index
pp 195-202

Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology
pp 203-206

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