Women and the Ancestors: BLACK CARIB KINSHIP AND RITUAL
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Women and the Ancestors: BLACK CARIB KINSHIP AND RITUAL
Book Details
- Author
- Virginia Kerns
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Caribbean & West Indies
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780252066658
- ISBN-10
- 0252066650
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ISBN: 0252066650
Author: Kerns, Virginia
Condition: New
This classic study of BlackCarib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organizedby older women now includes a foreword by Constance R. Sutton and an afterwordby the author."One of the outstandingstudies 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 contributionto the literature on female-centered bilateral kinship and residence."-- Grant D. Jones, American Ethnologist"A richly detailed accountof a contemporary culture in which older women are important, valued,and self-respecting."-- Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly"A combination of competentresearch, interwoven themes, and an easily readable, sometimes beautifullyevocative, prose style." -- Heather Strange, The Gerontologist
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