My Mother Who Fathered Me: A Study of the Families in Three Selected Communities of Jamaica - Softcover

Clarke, E.; Clarke, Edith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9766400407 ISBN 13: 9789766400408

Publisher: University Press of the West Indies, 2002

Synopsis

This expanded new edition of Edith Clarke's groundbreaking work, "My Mother Who Fathered Me" includes material taken from her personal collection in the Jamaican archives, published reviews of the earlier edition and a foreword by Rex Nettleford.

About this title

About the Author:

Edith Clarke, noted Jamaican anthropologist, social worker and legislator, died in 1979.

Review:

"My Mother Who Fathered Me is a classic study of kinship organization in three communities in Jamaica. Written in 1957, Edith Clarke's book has been highly influential in Caribbean Studies for nearly thirty years." -- M. L. Black, Social and Economic Studies, March 1995

"The book is one that adds materially to knowledge of West Indian family patterns. It goes well beyond Kerr and Henriques, especially with regard to the care and precision with which data are interpreted and reported. Not only will it be of interest to scholars but it will be valuable to all professionals in the West Indies who deal with lower-income families." -- J. Mayonne Stycos, Social and Economic Studies, 1959.

"The reissue of Edith Clarke's pioneering work provides the opportunity for dialogue with the recent past to help make sense of the foreseeable future which is even now challenging Jamaicans to review, re-evaluate and also to redefine all its fundamental institutions of growth, of which the family is a foremost one." -- Foreword

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9766400407
• ISBN 13: 9789766400408
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 266