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Family and childhood in a Southern Negro community
American anthropologist • 72 • Published In 1970 • Pages: 269-288
By: Young, Virginia Heyer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents the results of a study of Black family and childhood in a small Georgia community. It contains discussion of the functionality and organizational strength of the Black family and descriptions and analysis of observations of parent-child relations and childrearing practices. The author argues that indigenous culture rather than deprivation is the primary formative agent of Black behavior.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Nuclear family
- Household
- Illegitimacy
- Social placement
- Family relationships
- Development and maturation
- Ethos
- Classes
- Income and demand
- Transmission of skills
- Status of children
- Settlement patterns
- Gender status
- Basis of marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- African Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1986
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1961-1962, 1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- rural non-farm town of Georgiatown (pseudonym), Georgia, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Virginia Heyer Young
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- African Americans