Women and the Ancestors : BLACK CARIB KINSHIP AND RITUAL Paperback / softback
by Virginia Kerns
Paperback / softback
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This classic study of Black Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organized by older women now includes a foreword by Constance R.
Sutton and an afterword by the author. "One of the outstanding studies of this genre. . . . Refreshingly, the book has good photographs, as well as strong endnotes and bibliography, and very useful tables, figures, maps, and index." -- Choice "An outstanding contribution to the literature on female-centered bilateral kinship and residence." -- Grant D.
Jones, American Ethnologist "A richly detailed account of a contemporary culture in which older women are important, valued, and self-respecting." -- Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly "A combination of competent research, interwoven themes, and an easily readable, sometimes beautifully evocative, prose style." -- Heather Strange, The Gerontologist
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/06/1997
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- ISBN:9780252066658
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:01/06/1997
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252066658