book chapter
West Indian family structure
University of Washington Press • Seattle • Published In 1962 • Pages: i-vii, 1-23, 125-311
By: Smith, M. G. (Michael Garfield).
Abstract
This source is a demographic study of household composition and patterns of sexual union in West Indian societies. The survey sample is comparative and includes rural and urban households on the islands of Carriacou, Grenada, and Jamaica. All those sampled are rural peasants or urban lower class. The author finds three types of family structure including: extra-residential sexual unions, consensual co-habitation (common-law marriage), and marriage. Individuals tend to cycle through these types as they age, however the urban areas of Grenville, Grenada and Kingston, Jamaica are considered to be more disorganized and, although all three forms coexist, they do not form a developmental series. The analysis integrates historical data from the period of slavery as well as comparative data on other Caribbean and African societies.
- Subjects
- Composition of population
- Comparative evidence
- Urban and rural life
- Age stratification
- Gender status
- Marriage
- Family
- Grandparents and grandchildren
- Illegitimacy
- culture
- Jamaicans
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Ethnologist-5
- Analyst
- Martin Malone ; 1976
- Field Date
- 1955
- Coverage Date
- 1804-1955
- Coverage Place
- Jamaica; Grenada; Grenville, Grenada; Kingston, Jamaica; Carriacou, Grenada; Nigeria
- Notes
- by M. G. Smith
- At head of title: The American Ethnological Society, Viola E. Garfield, editor; a monograph from the Research Institute for the Study of Man
- Extraresidential mating has been marked for Category 836. The statistical tables referred to in the text are located at the end of each chapter, on pp. 145-162, 181-197, and 226-242.Only the sections dealing with Jamaica have been processed for the Files. In the processed sections, material specifically on the other societies has been zeroed out, but where it is employed in comparison with the Jamaican data, it has been marked for Category 171.
- Only pages i-vii, 1-23, 125-311 have been processed for the Files
- Includes bibliographical references(p. 303-305)
- LCCN
- 61014502
- LCSH
- Family--West Indies, British