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Sexual and familial institutions in northern Haiti
American anthropologist • 44 (4) (1) • Published In 1942 • Pages: 655-674
By: Simpson, George Eaton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses salient features of sexual and familial institutions in Northern Haiti. In addition to families established through legally recognized civil or ecclesiastic ceremonies, Haitians recognized a socially approved sexual and economic relationship between a man and a woman he calls placee. The nature of this relationship often depended on the economic position of the woman including whether she owned her own land and home. A woman of higher economic rank may not be limited to one man, and the invididual who visited her most often could not reproach another man when he may find him.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sexual intercourse
- Basis of marriage
- General sex restrictions
- Extramarital sex relations
- Premarital sex relations
- Illegitimacy
- Sex and marital offenses
- Gender status
- Urban and rural life
- Family relationships
- Extended families
- Legal norms
- Real property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haitians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- Caribbean
- 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1941
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Haiti
- NotesAdditional notes
- George Eaton Simpson
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haitians