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Women and the division of labor: a Jamaican example
American anthropologist • 74 (3) • Published In 1972 • Pages: 689-692
By: Pollock, Nancy J..
Abstract
Based on data gathered in two rural western Jamaican communities, this brief source is concerned with changes in women's status and economic activities in relation to changes in household structure over time. The author argues that the matri-centered family is attributable to economic constraints and labor migration, with few males available to serve as heads of households. Women begin bearing children in free unions and become the principal provider for their families, largely through cultivating crops. However, matri-centered families are a temporary construct; males return to the community, marry, and become heads of households, and women become less active in the economic sphere.
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Eleanor Swanson ; John Beierle ; 1976
- Field Date
- 1964 (3 months)
- Coverage Date
- 1964
- Coverage Place
- western Jamaica
- Notes
- Nancy J. Pollock
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 17015424
- LCSH
- Jamaica--Social life and customs