Coping With Poverty - Hymie Rubenstein

Coping With Poverty

Adaptive Strategies In A Caribbean Village
Buch | Hardcover
410 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-01375-2 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
 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.
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

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

Hairoun1 -- Preface -- Introduction -- Historical Background and Contemporary Scene -- St. Vincent: The Island Background -- St. Vincent: The Contemporary Scene -- Leeward Village: Past and Present -- The Organization of Economic Life -- Work, Wealth, and Class -- Land Tenure and Use -- Labor Migration -- Kinship and Social Organization -- Kindred Organization -- Sex, Mating, and Marriage -- The Household -- Friendship -- Black Adaptive Strategies

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-01375-4 / 0367013754
ISBN-13 978-0-367-01375-2 / 9780367013752
Zustand Neuware
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