10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PATRIFOCAL»
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patrifocal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Quantification in Cultural Anthropology: An Introduction to ...
For example, Boyd's analysis showed, among other things, that matrifocal
households raised more staple root crops per consumer (including pigs) than did
patrifocal households, and that patrifocal households (which had more pigs)
planted ...
2
Immigrant Families in Contemporary Society
Other families experience emotional and marital problems. Indeed, new
immigrants must pay a high price if they choose to lead this lifestyle. Patrifocal
Families Patrifocal families are those headed by a male single parent—
something relatively ...
Jennifer E. Lansford, Kirby D. Deater-Deckard, Marc H. Bornstein, 2009
3
The Chinese in Silicon Valley: Globalization, Social ...
Both patrifocal and ma- trifocal households come about because of the need for
economic betterment. Relatively speaking, matrifocal households are more
numerous than patrifocal ones. This is probably due to the fact that men are the ...
4
Juvenile Primates: Life History, Development and Behavior, ...
10. Growing. Up. in. a. Patrifocal. Society: Sex. Differences. in. the. Spatial.
Relations. of. Immature. Muriquis. Fig. 10.2. Proportion of observations of
independent juveniles and suhadults. KAREN B. STRIER The muriqui. or woolly
spider ...
Michael E. Pereira, Lynn A. Fairbanks, 1993
5
Social Values Among Young Adults: A Changing Scenario
This commonly accepted scenario arises from important differences between the
class-dominant patrifocal family and the lower social class matrifocal family. The
street children coming from matrifocal families are being judged by patrifocal ...
Man Singh Das, Vijay Kumar Gupta, 1995
6
Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition
This extended family unit, commonly referred to as the "joint family," is male
oriented in both its structure and associated beliefs and values; hence, my use of
the term "patrifocal family structure and ideology."5 Although India's
contemporary ...
Susan Christine Seymour, 1999
7
Subjectivity in Asian Children’s Literature and Film: Global ...
The pivot of the problem here is adherence to a Confucian, patrifocal script for the
family. Patrifocality, as defined by Mukhopadhyay and Seymour, is a kinship and
family structure that may take various forms but always implies the ...
8
Land, Labour and the Family in Southern Ghana: A Critique of ...
The literature on matrifocality is important in that it challenges evolutionary
schemes that posit the nuclear patrifocal (male headed) family as the final
developed and evolved form of the family in the golden age of mature capitalism.
From this, it ...
9
Roads to Change in Maya Guatemala: A Field School Approach ...
In Nahuala, men are the center of a male-oriented or patrifocal society. The
problem, however, is that patrifocality comes at the expense of women. The
justice of the peace and others observed that Nahuala is a closed corporate
community ...
John Palmer Hawkins, Walter Randolph Adams, 2005
10
Understanding Family Meanings: A Reflective Text
In discussing these quotes, Seymour relates the women's comments to the
broader patrifocal context. As you read the next extract from Seymour's
discussion, can you identify how she traces the ways in which the women draw
on, and ...
Jane Ribbens McCarthy, Megan Doolittle, Shelley Day Sclater, 2012
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PATRIFOCAL»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
patrifocal is used in the context of the following news items.
Equality, Empowerment, and the Gulabi Gang
They could own property and get divorced and though their societies were patrifocal, meaning that men were the center of the social structure ... «Guardian Liberty Voice, Mar 14»
South Indian Phylogeography
It could be that for most of history male lineages exchanged women between patrifocal households, so that sons stayed home while daughters ... «ScienceBlogs, Dec 08»
