The extended family in black societies [electronic resource] / editors, Demitri B. Shimkin, Edith M. Shimkin, Dennis A. Frate.
Series: World anthropologyPublication details: The Hague : Mouton, 1978.Description: xxi, 526 p. : ill., portsISBN:- 9027975906
- 0202900770 (Aldine)
- 9789027975904
- 9783110807769 (e-book)
- 301.42
- E185.86 .E9 1978eb

Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
section 1. Introduction -- section 2. The extended family in Holmes County, Mississippi and its outliers -- section 3. Is there a national pattern in the United States? -- section 4. Afro-American perspectives on the extended family -- section 5. Implications for policy.
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