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Women and the Ancestors
Black Carib Kinship and Ritual
Virginia Kerns
Paper978-0-252-06665-8
$25.00
| Pub Date: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 296 pages |
| Illustrations: | 45 black & white photographs |
This classic study of Black Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organized by older women now includes a foreword by Constance R. Sutton and an afterword by the author.
"One of the outstanding studies 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 contribution to the literature on female-centered bilateral kinship and residence."
-- Grant D. Jones, American Ethnologist
"A richly detailed account of a contemporary culture in which older women are important, valued, and self-respecting."
-- Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly
"A combination of competent research, interwoven themes, and an easily readable, sometimes beautifully evocative, prose style." -- Heather Strange, The Gerontologist
Subjects:
Black Studies / Women's Studies / History, Am.: 19th C. / Caribbean Studies / Anthropology
