Hymie Rubenstein

Coping With Poverty (eBook, ePUB)

Adaptive Strategies In A Caribbean Village

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ethnography of Leeward Village, a large coastal community on the little-known Caribbean island of St. Vincent, illustrates how people in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere pull together in positive and creative ways to adjust to the many adversities they face. Like their Black counterparts elsewhere in the Americas, Leeward

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429712760
• Artikelnr.: 56861907

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