Male and Female and the Afro-Curacaoan HouseholdThe subject of the present study concerns the relationships between men and women and the composition of household groups among the lower Afro-American strata of the society of Curaçao. The material on which it is based was collected in Curaçao in the course of a 15-month period of fieldwork in 1965 and 1966. |
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
III | 13 |
THE STUDY OF THE AFROAMERICAN FAMILY | 15 |
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according acculturation African Afro-American area Afro-American family Afro-American population age-groups Antillean behaviour biological reproduction birth British Guyana child coloured common law marriage common law wives concubinage conjugal connection coresidence coresidential correlation cultural Curaçaoan daughters differentiation domestic group Domestic Income double standard Dutch economic position factor father female heads girls greater hanja Headship Types Herskovits Hoetink household group husband-father illegitimacy illegitimate important influence institutionalization kinship latter legal marriage less living lower strata male heads man-woman relationship married woman matrifocality mobility modern monogamous morality mother Negroes neolocality Netherlands Antilles non-resident norms nuclear family number of children observed occupation Papiamentu parents partner patterns percentage persons plantation political polygynic population of Curaçao R. T. Smith regard relatively resident respect result role sample single woman slaves social and economic society of Curaçao structure Surinam TABLE urban visiting relationship wife women