Women and the ancestors: Black Carib kinship and ritual

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kerns,Virginia (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    1983
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780252009822
    Published:
    Urbana: University of Illinois Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    0252009827; 9780252009822
    Subject Term:
    Blacks, Social life and customs, Belize, Black Carib Indians, Marriage and families, Garifuna (Caribbean people), Native Americans, and Kinship
    Notes:
    229 p., Contents: Antecedents -- Life in the Back of Beyond -- Shifting Sands -- Personal Autonomy -- Age and Gender -- Kinship -- Households and Extended Families -- Death and the Work of Mourning -- Ritual Organization -- Necessity as Mother of Convention -- Afterword -- Kinship Terminology -- Ritual Expenses.

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