Afro-American anthropology
Subtitle: contemporary perspectives.
By: Edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and John F. Szwed. Foreword by Sidney W. Mintz.
Contributors: Szwed, John F., 1936- joint comp.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 468
Subjects: Black race
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Includes papers from a symposium held in 1967 at the American Anthropological Association meeting.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Sidney W. Mintz; title: Pictorial essay / George A. Talbot; title: Introduction / Norman E. Whitten and John F. Szwed; title: Ethnohistory and self-image in three new world Negro societies / Thomas J. Price; title: Referential ambiguity in the calculus of Brazilian racial identity / Marvin Harris; title: Ritual dissociation and possession belief in Caribbean Negro religion / Erika Bourguignon; title: Crisis, contraculture, and religion among West Indians in the Panama Canal Zone / R.S. Bryce-Laporte; title: Non-standard Negro dialects : convergence or divergence? / J.L. Dillard; title: Cultural and linguistic ambiguity in a West Indian village / Karl Reisman; title: Toward an ethnography of black American speech behavior / Thomas Kochman; title: Patterns of performance in the British West Indies / Roger Abrahams; title: The homogeneity of African-Afro-American musical style / Alan Lomax; title: Personal networks and musical contexts in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten; title: Afro-American musical adaptation / John F. Szwed; title: Toward a definition of matrifocality / Nancie L. González; title: Black traders of north highland Ecuador / Kathleen Klumpp; title: Differential adaptations and microcultural evolution in Guyana / Leo Despres; title: A response to marginality : the case of black migrant farm workers / Dorothy Nelkin; title: The kindred of Viola Jackson : residence and family organization of an urban black American family / Carol B. Stack; title: What ghetto males are like : another look / Ulf Hannerz; title: Strategies of adaptive mobility in the Colombian-Ecuadorian littoral / Norman E. Whitten; title: Black culture : myth or reality? / Robert Blauner; title: Soul music and blues : their meaning and relevance in northern United States black ghettos / Michael Haralambos; title: The social organization of a movement of revolutionary change : case study, black power / Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine; title: Making the scene, digging the action, and telling it like it is : anthropologists at work in a dark ghetto / Charles A. Valentine and Betty Lou Valentine.