My Mother who Fathered Me: A Study of the Families in Three Selected Communities of JamaicaThis expanded new edition of Edith Clarke's groundbreaking work, My Mother Who Fathered Me includes material taken from her personal collection in the Jamaican archives, published reviews of the earlier edition and a foreword by Rex Nettleford. |
Contents
Foreword | vi |
Foreword to 1957 Edition | xii |
Introduction | xx |
The Background | 1 |
Land Tenure | 14 |
Marriage | 47 |
Sex Procreation and the Institutions of Concubinage | 61 |
The Organization of Households | 87 |
The Development of Kinship Roles | 105 |
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acres adult Antigua and Barbuda Appendix based on concubinage based on marriage behaviour breadfruit brother Caribbean Catherine Shepherd child children born Clarke's common-law marriage concubine conjugal union couple crop Daily Gleaner denuded domestic Economic Studies Edith Clarke extended family extra-residential family households family land family organization Family Structure family type farming female girl grandchildren great-grandmother Henriques Herskovits husband illegitimacy illegitimate children inheritance island Jamaica Kingston kinship events labour living in concubinage lower class male married mating matrilocal Mother Who Fathered norms nuclear families Orange Grove parents pattern percent in Mocca percent in Sugartown population proportion R. T. Smith regard relationship rent responsibility sexual siblings Simey simple family sister Social and Economic society status sugar Sugartown and Mocca three Centres told Total type of household village wage labour West Indian family West Indies wife woman women