Women and the Ancestors

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  • Women and the Ancestors Book Detail

  • Author : Virginia Kerns
  • Release Date : 1997
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 296
  • ISBN 13 : 9780252066658
  • File Size : 93,93 MB

Women and the Ancestors by Virginia Kerns PDF Summary

Book Description: This classic study of Black Carib culture and its preservation through ancestral rituals organized by older women now includes a foreword by Constance R. Sutton and an afterword by the author. "One of the outstanding studies of this genre. . . . Refreshingly, the book has good photographs, as well as strong endnotes and bibliography, and very useful tables, figures, maps, and index." -- Choice "An outstanding contribution to the literature on female-centered bilateral kinship and residence." -- Grant D. Jones, American Ethnologist "A richly detailed account of a contemporary culture in which older women are important, valued, and self-respecting." -- Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly "A combination of competent research, interwoven themes, and an easily readable, sometimes beautifully evocative, prose style." -- Heather Strange, The Gerontologist

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