Raymond T. Smith

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When this book was published in 1956 it attracted a good deal of attention both inside the Caribbean and elsewhere.  The concept of matrifocality in particular was quickly seized upon and applied in many varied situations, not always consistently and certainly not always as it had been used in this book.

In this section I shall lay out a series of comments, amplifications, criticisms and revisions that will be hyperlinked to the original text on this web site.