Author: Smith, Raymond T., editor:
Title: Kinship Ideology and Practice in Latin America
Description: Chapel Hill, Univ.of North Carolina Press, (1984). orig.cloth. 23x16cm, vii, 341 pp. Textual tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contains 11 papers concerning Kinship Ideology in Slave Societies; Establishing Colonial Hierarchies; Hierarchies & Enterprise: The Use of Kinship in Adversity & Prosperity; Sex Roles & Economic Change. Includes: Stephen Gudeman & Stuart B. Schwartz "Cleansing Original Sin: Godparenthood & the Baptism of Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Bahia"; B.W. Higman "Terms for Kin in the British West Indian Slave Community: Differing Perceptions of Masters & Slaves"; Enrique Mayer "A Tribute to the Household: Domestic Economy & the 'Encomienda' in Colonial Peru"; Juan M. Ossio "Cultural Continuity, Structure, and Context: Some Peculiarities of the Andean 'Compadrazgo' "; Jack Alexander "Love, Race, Slavery, and Sexuality in Jamaican Images of the Family"; Laissa A. Lomnitz & Marisol Perez-Lizaur "Dynastic Growth and Survival Strategies: The Solidarity of Mexican Grand-Families"; Ruth C.L. Cardoso "Creating Kinship: The Fostering of Children in 'Favela' Families in Brazil"; Guillermo de la Pena " Ideology & Practice in Southern Jalisco: Peasants, Rancheros, and Urban Entrepreneurs"; Ramon A. Gutierrez "From Honor to Love: Transformations of the Meaning of Sexuality in Colonial New Mexico"; Verena Stolcke "The Exploitation of Family Morality: Labor Systems & Family Structure on Sao Paulo Coffee Plantations"; Fiona Wilson "Marriage, Property, and the Position of Women in the Peruvian Central Andes".

Keywords: Social Anthropology, Latin America, Kinship, Sociology, Family structure, Brazil, Colonial history, Mexico,