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A Selection of Recent Publications

 

1988 Kinship and Class in the West Indies: a genealogical study of Jamaica and Guyana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Paperback edition 1990].

 

1995 The Matrifocal Family: Power, Pluralism and Politics. New York: Routledge.

 

1995 "'Living in the Gun Mouth'; Race, Class and Political Violence in Guyana." Paper delivered at a conference on Class, Ethnicity and Ideology in the Caribbean: The Modern Consequences of Four Colonialisms held at Brigham Young University on December 7th and 8th 1992. Nieuwe West Indische Gids 69 (3/4) 1995.

 

1996 "The Caribbean" in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (Vol. 1), Edited by David Levinson and Melvin Ember. New York: Henry Holt and Company for Human Relations Area Files at Yale University.

 

1997 "Class," "Social Stratification" and "Status." Entries in The Blackwell Dictionary of Anthropology. Oxford: Blackwells.

 

1997 "Foreword" to Diane J. Austin-Broos, Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

2001 "The Caribbean Family: Questions for Research and Implications for Policy" in Caribbean Families in Britain and the Trans-Atlantic World, Edited by Harry Goulbourne and Mary Chamberlain.  London and Oxford: Macmillan Education Ltd (Warwick University Caribbean Studies)

 

In Press:

"The Caribbean Family: Continuity and Transformation" Chapter XVI of Volume 5, UNESCO General History of the Caribbean.

 

"Matrifocality" International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.  Pergamon Press.