Book
Family structure in Jamaica: the social context of reproduction
Free Press of Glencoe • New York • Published In 1961 • Pages:
By: Blake, Judith.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is a study of reproductive motivations and family structure among the lower classes. It aims to highlight the attitudes, institutions, and conditions inherent within Jamaican society that could help to constrain the birth rate, which is considered an obstacle to economic development. Trained personnel interviewed 99 rural and urban women, and 53 of their partners. Although the author does not give definite recommendations as to how to limit population growth, this study is valuable because it is the first to systematically investigate reproductive motivation and birth control attitudes in Jamaica. The findings challenged the established views of other social scientists of the time, as well as many popular beliefs.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Marriage
- Nuclear family
- Premarital sex relations
- Sexual intercourse
- Conception
- 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
- EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is 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.
- Sociologist-4,5
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Heather Fellows ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1954
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1916-1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Jamaica
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Judith Blake in collaboration with J. Mayone Stycos and Kingsley Davis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-257)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 60010893
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Family--Jamaica
- Sex customs--Jamaica
- Birth control--Jamaica
- Fertility, Human