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Plantation systems of the New World : papers and discussion summaries of the seminar held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Title
Plantation systems of the New World : papers and discussion summaries of the seminar held in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Author
Seminar on Plantation Systems of the New World (1957 : San Juan, P.R.)
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Pan American Union, 1959.

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Additional Authors
  • Research Institute for the Study of Man.
  • Pan American Union.
Description
ix, 212 pages; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Social science monographs ; 7
Uniform Title
Social Science monographs (Pan American Union. Social Science Section) ; 7.
Subject
  • Plantations > America > Congresses
  • Plantations > Environmental aspects > Congresses
  • Plantations > Social aspects > Congresses
  • Plantations
  • Tenure types, Traditional
  • Land tenure
  • Tenure types, Traditional > Latin America
  • Plantations > Amérique > Congrès
  • America
  • Latin America > Historical development
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • "A joint publication of the Research Institute for the Study of Man and the Pan American Union."
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 197-212.
Contents
Introduction / Vera Rubin -- Perspectives on plantations / Julian H. Steward -- Plantations in world economy / Ida C. Greaves. Comments / H.A. Rhee. Comments / Raymond E. Crist -- The plantation as a social system / Edgar T. Thompson. Comments / Harry W. Hutchinson. Comments / Levy P. da Cruz -- The plantation as a socio-cultural type / Sidney W. Mintz. Comments / Eugenio Fernández Méndez. Comments / Pedro Carrasco -- Colonization and development of plantations / Elena Padilla. Comments / Elsa V. Goveia. Comments / Roy Augier -- African influences in the development of regional cultures in the New World / Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán -- Comments / René Ribeiro -- On the relation between plantation and "Creole cultures" / Richard N. Adams. Comments / Rémy Bastien. Comments / Michael G. Smith -- The ecology of tropical farming systems / James M. Blaut. Comments / Betty J. Meggers. Comments / Angel Palerm -- Land tenure and use in the Brazilian plantation system / Manuel Diégues Júnior. Comments / Marco Aurelio Vila. Comments / Sam Schulman -- Some observations relating to population dynamics in plantations areas of the New World / T. Lynn Smith. Comments / Rafael Picó -- Specific aspects of plantation systems in the New World : community sub-cultures and social class / Eric R. Wolf. Comments / Julio de la Fuente -- Family structure and plantation systems in the New World / Raymond T. Smith. Comments / Basil Matthews. Comments / William Davenport -- Skin color and social class / Oracy Nogueira. Comments / James G. Leyburn. Comments / Lloyd Braithwaite -- Summation and comments / Conrad M. Arensberg.
LCCN
pa 60000132
OCLC
  • ocm00852793
  • 852793
  • SCSB-1290780
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library