Research Catalog

Title

Afro-American anthropology : contemporary perspectives / edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and John F. Szwed ; foreword by Sidney W. Mintz.

Publication

• New York : Free Press, [1970]
• ©1970

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Details

Additional Authors

• Whitten, Norman E., Jr. (Norman Earl), 1937-
• Szwed, John F., 1936-
• Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred), 1922-2015

Description

x, 468 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Subject

• Black race
• Black people
• African Americans
• Ethnology
• Ethnic groups
• Black or African American
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Ethnicity
• Ethnology
• Black People
• African American
• ethnology
• social anthropology
• ethnic groups
• Black (general, race and ethnicity)
• Ethnic groups
• Black people
• African Americans
• Black race
• Black studies

Genre/Form

• Congress
• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Includes papers from a symposium held in 1967 at the American Anthropological Association meeting.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

• Foreword / Sidney W. Mintz -- Pictorial essay / George A. Talbot -- Introduction / Norman E. Whitten and John F. Szwed -- Ethnohistory and self-image in three new world Negro societies / Thomas J. Price -- Referential ambiguity in the calculus of Brazilian racial identity / Marvin Harris -- Ritual dissociation and possession belief in Caribbean Negro religion / Erika Bourguignon -- Crisis, contraculture, and religion among West Indians in the Panama Canal Zone / R.S. Bryce-Laporte -- Non-standard Negro dialects : convergence or divergence? / J.L. Dillard -- Cultural and linguistic ambiguity in a West Indian village / Karl Reisman -- Toward an ethnography of black American speech behavior / Thomas Kochman -- Patterns of performance in the British West Indies / Roger Abrahams --
• The homogeneity of African-Afro-American musical style / Alan Lomax -- Personal networks and musical contexts in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten -- Afro-American musical adaptation / John F. Szwed -- Toward a definition of matrifocality / Nancie L. González -- Black traders of north highland Ecuador / Kathleen Klumpp -- Differential adaptations and microcultural evolution in Guyana / Leo Despres -- A response to marginality : the case of black migrant farm workers / Dorothy Nelkin -- The kindred of Viola Jackson : residence and family organization of an urban black American family / Carol B. Stack -- What ghetto males are like : another look / Ulf Hannerz -- Strategies of adaptive mobility in the Colombian-Ecuadorian littoral / Norman E. Whitten -- Black culture : myth or reality? / Robert Blauner --
• Soul music and blues : their meaning and relevance in northern United States black ghettos / Michael Haralambos -- The social organization of a movement of revolutionary change : case study, black power / Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine -- 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.

ISBN

• 0029352509
• 9780029352502

LCCN

79093109

OCLC

• ocm00058236
• 58236
• SCSB-418141

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library