Book
Black Carib household structure: a study of migration and modernization
University of Washington Press • Seattle • Published In 1969 • Pages: 24, 163
By: González, Nancie L. Solien.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The central theme of this study is the description and analysis of the 'consanguineal household' of the Garifuna. The author defines this kind of household '...as a coresidental group of people who live under one roof, who eat and sleep together, and cooperate daily for the common benefit of all, and among whom there exist no conjugal pairs' (p. 137). To illustrate the structure and function of this type of household, González uses as her sample the Garifunas of Livingston, Guatemala, placing their form of household organization within the broader cultural and social matrix of the society as a whole, looking at it both synchronically and from a historical viewpoint. In the process of analysis the author provides additional information on the economic development of the society (with an emphasis on the importance of migrant wage labor), domestic life and structure in Garifuna society, and cross-cultural comparisons with other societies outside of Central America.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Marriage
- Household
- Family relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garifuna
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1956-1957
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Livingston, Guatemala
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nancie L. Solien Gonzalez
- New version of the author's dissertation, Univ. of Michigan, 1958
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-155)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77093024
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garifuna (Caribbean people)