African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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.
