An edition of Afro-American anthropology (1970)

Afro-American anthropology

contemporary perspectives.

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An edition of Afro-American anthropology (1970)

Afro-American anthropology

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Free Press
Language
English
Pages
468

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Table of Contents

Foreword / Sidney W. Mintz
Pictorial essay / George A. Talbot
Introduction / Norman E. Whitten and John F. Szwed
Ethnohistory and self-image in three new world Negro societies / Thomas J. Price
Referential ambiguity in the calculus of Brazilian racial identity / Marvin Harris
Ritual dissociation and possession belief in Caribbean Negro religion / Erika Bourguignon
Crisis, contraculture, and religion among West Indians in the Panama Canal Zone / R.S. Bryce-Laporte
Non-standard Negro dialects : convergence or divergence? / J.L. Dillard
Cultural and linguistic ambiguity in a West Indian village / Karl Reisman
Toward an ethnography of black American speech behavior / Thomas Kochman
Patterns of performance in the British West Indies / Roger Abrahams
The homogeneity of African-Afro-American musical style / Alan Lomax
Personal networks and musical contexts in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten
Afro-American musical adaptation / John F. Szwed
Toward a definition of matrifocality / Nancie L. González
Black traders of north highland Ecuador / Kathleen Klumpp
Differential adaptations and microcultural evolution in Guyana / Leo Despres
A response to marginality : the case of black migrant farm workers / Dorothy Nelkin
The kindred of Viola Jackson : residence and family organization of an urban black American family / Carol B. Stack
What ghetto males are like : another look / Ulf Hannerz
Strategies of adaptive mobility in the Colombian-Ecuadorian littoral / Norman E. Whitten
Black culture : myth or reality? / Robert Blauner
Soul music and blues : their meaning and relevance in northern United States black ghettos / Michael Haralambos
The social organization of a movement of revolutionary change : case study, black power / Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine
Making the scene, digging the action, and telling it like it is : anthropologists at work in a dark ghetto / Charles A. Valentine and Betty Lou Valentine.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies.
Includes papers from a symposium held in 1967 at the American Anthropological Association meeting.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
309.29/174/96
Library of Congress
GN645 .W45

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
x, 468 p.
Number of pages
468
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4438155M
Internet Archive
afroamericananth00whit
LCCN
79093109
OCLC/WorldCat
58236
Library Thing
4667823

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