Hymie Rubenstein

Coping With Poverty

Adaptive Strategies In A Caribbean Village

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the theoretical and empirical issues by describing the causes and consequences of poverty in Leeward Village. It explores how poor villagers deal with the problem of securing a livelihood?of getting enough food, clothing, shelter, and other life-sustaining necessities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780367163624
• ISBN-10: 0367163624
• Artikelnr.: 59992029

Autorenporträt

Hymie Rubenstein is associate professor of anthropology at The University of Manitoba.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part I: Historical Background and Contemporary Scene 2. St.
Vincent: The Island Background 3. St. Vincent: The Contemporary Scene 4.
Leeward Village: Past and Present Part II: The Organization of Economic
Life 5. Work, Wealth, and Class 6. Land Tenure and Use 7. Labor Migration
Part III: Kinship and Social Organization 8. Kindred Organization 9. Sex,
Mating, and Marriage 10. The Household 11. Friendship 12. Black Adaptive
Strategies