10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MATRIFOCALITY»
Discover the use of
matrifocality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
matrifocality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Woman, Culture, and Society
Similarly, matrifocality can occur in a wide range of social and economic contexts.
Whether the society or ethnic group in question is generally in comfortable
circumstances or poverty-stricken, powerful or powerless, is not the issue. Rather
...
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo, Louise Lamphere, Joan Bamberger, 1974
2
More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas
These are the kinds of issues and questions that need to be raised about the
relation between African - American families and an African heritage; we need no
further tracking of the red herrings of "matrifocality" and "matriarchy."99 In sum ...
David Barry Gaspar, Darlene Clark Hine, 1996
3
Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture
Consequently, James settled for the term 'matrifocality' as 'an indigenous view of
the moral primacy of biological motherhood in the definition of social relations' (
1978: 150). In Ashanti society, matrifocality was expressed in socioeconomic ...
4
Moved by Mary: The Power of Pilgrimage in the Modern World
Its main premise is that these pilgrimages gain increased significance in the
context of matrifocality. It was Raymond Smith (1956) who introduced this term to
Caribbean studies. He recently defined matrifocality as "a property of kinship ...
Anna-Karina Hermkens, Willy Jansen, Catrien Notermans, 2009
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Feminist Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future
The Missing Man in Matrifocality In this chapter, I focus on two geographical
areas in which the term matrifocality was used, the Afro-Caribbean region, which
is neither culturally homogeneous nor unchanging but has served as the testing ...
Pamela L. Geller, Miranda K. Stockett, 2007
6
Female Well-Being: Towards a Global Theory of Social Change
Increasing matrifocality occurs when males migrate from rural to urban areas for
work, or to more favourable labour markets in expatriate countries. In countries
where chronic conflict and war are present, such as Sudan, matrifocal families ...
Janet Mancini Billson, Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, 2005
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The Character of Kinship
This increasing 'matrifocal' quality is seen whether the husband-father is present
or not, and although the proportion of women who are household heads
increases with age - principally because of widowhood - matrifocality is a
property of the ...
8
Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women
But the examples that provide the most meaningful paradigm are those that show
matrifocality (and especially matrilineality and matrilocality) as a significant social
structural correlate of women's religions. Matrifocality, more than any other ...
9
Life in Black and White : Family and Community in the Slave ...
Two simple types of matrifocality are discussed here: structural matrifocality
which denotes the presence of a slave mother and her children in a single slave
household with no identifiable father present; and functional matrifocality which ...
Los Angeles Brenda E. Stevenson Assistant Professor of History University of California, 1996
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Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone ...
His final contributing category regarding matrifocality is that of “Stratification”; this
he defined as a mother-centered formation that resulted from conditions of
poverty, racism, and differential social status. Smith noted that while a
relationship ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MATRIFOCALITY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
matrifocality is used in the context of the following news items.
A Wray of Light into Ideas of Male Entitlement
The gender roles although ultimately deferring to matrifocality, nonetheless exercised forms of participatory governing from the grassroots level. «Trinidad and Tobago News, May 14»
Human behavior over the ages
In the social sense matrifocality simply means that males move between focal groups, while females remain in their natal groups. Polyamory ... «Discover Magazine, Jan 12»
