Matrifocal Family

The essays in this collection focus attention on the enormous contribution made by women in maintaining family relations in situations of both racial and gender domination. Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Kinship and Family Structure; Chapter 2 Hypotheses and the Problem of Explanation (1956); Chapter 3 Culture and Social Structure in the Caribbean (1963); Chapter 4 The Matrifocal Family (1973); Chapter 5 Hierarchy and the Dual Marriage System in West Indian Society (1987); Chapter 6 Family, Social Change, and Social Policy in the West Indies (1982); Part 2 Conflict and Difference: Race, Culture, and Politics; Chapter 7 Plural Society Theory (1966); Chapter 8 Caste and Social Status Among the Indians of Guyana (1967); Chapter 9 Race and Class in the Post-Emancipation Caribbean (1982); Chapter 10 Living in the Gun Mouth: Race, Class, and Political Violence in Guyana (1995); Chapter 11 On the Disutility of the Notion of “Ethnic Group” for Understanding Status Struggles in the Modern World (1995);