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 the 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 as a form of "trial marriage." In subsequent chapters, the author analyzes the range in types of household composition and organization. A final chapter deals with parent-child and stepparent-child relationships, child-rearing practices, education, female economic activities, adolescence, family role expectations, and the role of the grandmother in kinship and household relations.
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Indigenous Person
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1967-1968
- Field Date
- 1948-1949
- Coverage Date
- 1948-1949
- 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