Afro-American anthropology; contemporary perspectives. Edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and John F. Szwed. Foreword by Sidney W. Mintz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Free Press [1970]Description: x, 468 p. illus. 24 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 309.29/174/96
LOC classification:
  • GN645 .W45
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.
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Includes papers from a symposium held in 1967 at the American Anthropological Association meeting.

Includes bibliographies.

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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.