Book
My mother who fathered me: a study of the family in three selected communities in Jamaica
George Allen & Unwin Ltd. • London • Published In 1957 • Pages:
By: Clarke, Edith.
Abstract
This is a comparative study of three rural Jamaican communities with different family and household patterns. The communities represent three distinct agricultural types: sugarcane farming, small leasehold farming, and mixed farming with citrus crops. In each community the author examines and compares the land tenure system and marriage patterns, including the role of concubinage (defined as a conjugal union and cohabitation without legal/religious sanction) as a form of "trial marriage." In subsequent chapters, the author analyzes the different types of household composition and organization. A final chapter deals with parent-child and stepparent-child relationships, child-rearing practices, education, women’s economic activities, adolescence, family role expectations, and the role of the grandmother in kinship and household relations.
- Subjects
- Composition of population
- Property
- Buying and selling
- Marriage
- Family
- culture
- Jamaicans
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1967-1968
- Field Date
- 1948-1949
- Coverage Date
- 1834-1949
- Coverage Place
- Jamaica
- Notes
- Edith Clarke ; preface by Sir Hugh Foote, Governor of Jamaica
- Fieldwork dates not specified, but found online: https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/02e19b7a-280d-3cad-9122-ac1a136c5eb9
- LCCN
- 58022516
- LCSH
- Family--Jamaica
- Jamaica--Social conditions