Author: Gerber, Stanford Neil, editor:
Title: The Family in the Caribbean : Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Family in the Caribbean
Description: Rio Piedras [Puerto Rico], University of Puerto Rico, 1973. orig. wrappers. 24x17cm, 167 pp.. Worn. Corner bumped. Good. ¶ Full title reads: "The Family in the Caribbean : Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Family in the Caribbean, Aruba, Netherlands, Antilles, December 1-5, 1969 / edited by Stanford N. Gerber". Contains 10 papers: Methodological Problems Involved in the Study of the Aruban Family; Dominance, Focality and the Characterization of Domestic Groups: Some Reflections on " Matrifocality" in the Caribbean; Some Reflections on Caribbean Anthropology with Special Reference to the Family; Family, Household and Intergenerational Relations in a "Jamaican" Village in Limon,Costa Rica; Progress and Poverty: A Study of Relocated Shanty Town Families in Puerto Rico; Aruban Mating Patterns; Some Preliminary Observations on Spatial learning in Puerto Rican School Children; Ethnic Relations in the Caribbean: Ethnic Structure and Social Change in the U.S. Virgin Islands; Assimilation vs. Pluralism: Two Models for the Integration of Ethnic Groups in the Americas.

Keywords: Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Family, Aruba, Jamaica, Ethnography, Social Anthropology, Ethnology, Sociology