Author: Shimkin, Demitri B. ; Shimkin, Edith M. & Frate, Dennis A., editors:
Title: The Extended Family in Black Societies
Description: the Hague / Paris, Mouton, (1978). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xxi, 526 pp, Series: World Anthropology. Textual photos, tables.. Minor rubbing, a stain to dustwrapper, sl. page-edge soil, VG. ¶ Contains 16 papers concerning: The Extended Family in Holmes County, Mississippi and its outliers; Is there a National Pattern in the United States?; Afro-American Perspectives on the Extended Family; Implications for Policy. Includes: Demitri B. Shimkin, et al "The Black Extended Family:A Basic Rural Institution & a Mechanism of Urban Adaptation" ; Joyce Aschenbrenner "Continuities & Variations in Black Family Structure" ; Regina E. Holloman & Fannie E. Lewis " The 'Clan' : Case Study of a Black Extended Family in Chicago" ; Lenus Jack, Jr. "Kinship & Residential Propinquity in Black New Orleans: The Wesleys" ; Kiyotaka Aoyagi "Kinship &Friendship in Black Los Angeles: A Study of Migrants from Texas" Michel Laguerre " Ticouloute & His Kinfolk: The Study of a Haitian Extended Family" ; Esther N. Goody "Delegation of Parental Roles in West Africa & the West Indies", etc.

Keywords: Black Extended Family, Social anthropology, Afro-americans, Sociology, Family structure, Kinship, , ,