The extended family in black societies [electronic resource] / editors, Demitri B. Shimkin, Edith M. Shimkin, Dennis A. Frate.
Material type: TextSeries: World anthropologyPublication details: The Hague : Mouton, 1978Description: xxi, 526 p. : ill., portsISBN: 9783110807769 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): African American extended families -- Congresses | African American extended families -- Mississippi -- Holmes County -- Congresses | Families, Black -- Congresses | Holmes County (Miss.) -- Social conditions -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 301.42 LOC classification: E185.86 | .E9 1978Online resources: Click to ViewPapers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
section 1. Introduction -- section 2. The extended family in Holmes County, Mississippi and its outliers -- section 3. Is there a national pattern in the United States? -- section 4. Afro-American perspectives on the extended family -- section 5. Implications for policy.
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