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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- Property
- Buying and selling
- Marriage
- Family
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jamaicans
- 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
- 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 ; 1967-1968
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1948-1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1834-1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Jamaica
- NotesAdditional 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 58022516
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Family--Jamaica
- Jamaica--Social conditions