| Description |
xxi, 526 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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World anthropology |
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World anthropology.
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| Contents |
The struggle for black community development in Holmes County, Mississippi : internal efforts, external support, and the role of science / Eddie W. Logan and Dennis A. Frate -- The extended family among black Holmes countians : a personal note / Dennis A. Frate -- The black extended family : a basic rural institution and a mechanism of urban adaptation / Demitri B. Shimkin, Gloria Jean Louis, and Dennis A. Frate -- Community reactions and appraisals : the extended family as a social core / Dennis A. Frate and Eddie W. Logan -- Black families in the United States : an overview of current ideologies and research / Bert N. Adams -- Continuities and variations in black family structure / Joyce Aschenbrenner -- The 'clan' : case study of a black extended family in Chicago / Regina E. Holloman and Fannie E. Lewis -- Kinship and residential propinquity in black New Orleans : the Wesleys / Lenus Jack, Jr. -- Kinship and friendship in black Los Angeles : a study of migrants from Texas / Kiyotaka Aoyagi -- Familialism in Texas : a Texan view / M. Jourdan Atkinson -- Texas indeed is different : some historical and demographic observations / Demitri B. Shimkin -- The black extended family in the United States : some research suggestions / Vera M. Green -- Persistence, borrowing, and adaptive changes in black kinship systems : some issues and their significance / Demitri B. Shimkin and Victor Uchendu -- Ticouloute and his kinfolk : the study of a Haitian extended family / Michel Laguerre -- Delegation of parental roles in West Africa and the West Indies / Esther N. Goody -- Black institutions and potential social change in the United States / Leonard D. Borman |
| Summary |
Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973 |
| Notes |
Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
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Black family.
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African American extended families -- Congresses.
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African American extended families -- Mississippi -- Holmes County -- Congresses.
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African American families -- Congresses.
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African American families -- Missippi -- Holmes County -- Congresses
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African American families -- Mississippi -- Holmes County -- Congresses.
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African Americans -- Mississippi -- Holmes Co -- Congresses
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Families, Black -- Congresses.
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| SUBJECT |
Holmes County (Miss.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79027103 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Frate, Dennis A., 1948-
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Shimkin, Demitri B. (Demitri Boris), 1916-1992.
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Shimkin, Edith M.
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ebrary, Inc.
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International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (9th : 1973 : Chicago, Ill.)
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| LC no. |
79321340 |
| ISBN |
9027975906 |
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