606 p, Contents: [Caribbean : culture and history] Caribbean as a socio-cultural area / Sidney W. Mintz. Origin of Negro slavery / Eric Williams -- [Language] New languages for old in the West Indies / Douglas Taylor -- [Race, Ethnicity, and Class] Social stratification and cultural pluralism / Lloyd E. Braithwaite. Social stratification and ethnic identification / Elliott P. Skinner. West Indian characteristics of the Black Carib / Nancie L. Solien -- [Plantations, peasants, and communities] Cuban counterpoint : tobacco and sugar / Fernando Ortiz. Specific aspects of plantation systems in the New World : community sub-cultures and social classes / Eric R. Wolf. Typology of rural community forms in the Caribbean / Michael M. Horowitz. Caribbean social type : neither "peasant" nor "proletarian" / Richard Frucht -- [Land tenure] Land tenure and the family in four selected communities in Jamaica / Edith Clarke. Land tenure in three Negro villages in British Guiana / Raymond T. Smith. Changing agricultural land use on Guadeloupe, French West Indies / Don R. Hoy. Patterns of land tenure in the Leeward and Windward Islands and their relevance to problems of agricultural development in the West Indies / Herman J. Finkel -- [Labor, economics, and internal marketing] Jamaican Fishing: a game theory analysis / William C. Davenport. Cooperative labor groups in Haiti / Alfred Metraux. Business of Higglering in Jamaica / Margaret Fisher Katzin. Kin groups in a Haitian market / Caroline J. Legerman. Traditional markets and marketers in the Cibao Valley of the Dominican Republic / Douglass G. Norvell & R.V. Billingsley -- [Domestic organization] Household and family in the Caribbean / Nancie L. Solien. Four categories of interpersonal relationships in the family and community in a Jamaican village. Life cycle in an East Indian village in Trinidad / Morton Klass. Culture and social structure in the Caribbean : some recent work on family and kinship studies / Raymond T. Smith. Decision model of conjugal patterns in Martinique / Michael M. Horowitz -- [Religion and folklore] Belief system of Haitian Vodun / George Eaton Simpson. Focus of Cuban Santeria / William R. Bascom. Carnival in nineteenth century Trinidad / Andrew Pearse. Animism and Islam among the Javanese in Surinam / Annemarie De Waal Malefijt. Revivalistic folk religious movement in Puerto Rico / Scott Cook. Rastafarian Brethren of Jamaica / Sheila Kitzinger
