article
Women and the division of labor: a Jamaican example
American anthropologist • 74 (3) • Published In 1972 • Pages: 689-692
By: Pollock, Nancy J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Based on data gathered in two rural western Jamaican communities, this brief source is concerned with how women's status and economic activities change in relation to household structure within the lifecycle of the individual. Within rural villages, there is a shortage of young men due to local economic constraints and labor migration. Young women begin bearing children in free unions and become the principal provider for their families, largely through cultivating crops. However, by middle age, men typically return to the community, marry, and become heads of households. At this point, women become less active in the economic sphere.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Household
- Child care
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- Eleanor Swanson ; John Beierle ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964 (3 months)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1964
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western Jamaica
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nancy J. Pollock
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jamaica--Social life and customs