Afro-American anthropology contemporary perspectives - Whitten, Norman E. Jr. (Norman Earl) 1937-; Szwed, John F. 1936-; Mintz, Sidney W. (Sidney Wilfred) 1922-2015 (New York The Free Press, 1970)
Foreword / Sidney W. Mintz -- Pictorial essay / George A. Talbot -- Introduction / Norman E. Whitten and John F. Szwed -- Ethnohistory and self-image in three new world Negro societies / Thomas J. Price -- Referential ambiguity in the calculus of Brazilian racial identity / Marvin Harris -- Ritual dissociation and possession belief in Caribbean Negro religion / Erika Bourguignon -- Crisis, contraculture, and religion among West Indians in the Panama Canal Zone / R.S. Bryce-Laporte -- Non-standard Negro dialects : convergence or divergence? / J.L. Dillard -- Cultural and linguistic ambiguity in a West Indian village / Karl Reisman -- Toward an ethnography of black American speech behavior / Thomas Kochman -- Patterns of performance in the British West Indies / Roger Abrahams -- The homogeneity of African-Afro-American musical style / Alan Lomax -- Personal networks and musical contexts in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador / Norman E. Whitten -- Afro-American musical adaptation / John F. Szwed -- Toward a definition of matrifocality / Nancie L. González -- Black traders of north highland Ecuador / Kathleen Klumpp -- Differential adaptations and microcultural evolution in Guyana / Leo Despres -- A response to marginality : the case of black migrant farm workers / Dorothy Nelkin -- The kindred of Viola Jackson : residence and family organization of an urban black American family / Carol B. Stack -- What ghetto males are like : another look / Ulf Hannerz -- Strategies of adaptive mobility in the Colombian-Ecuadorian littoral / Norman E. Whitten -- Black culture : myth or reality? / Robert Blauner -- Soul music and blues : their meaning and relevance in northern United States black ghettos / Michael Haralambos -- The social organization of a movement of revolutionary change : case study, black power / Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine -- Making the scene, digging the action, and telling it like it is : anthropologists at work in a dark ghetto / Charles A. Valentine and Betty Lou Valentine.
Includes papers from a symposium held in 1967 at the American Anthropological Association meeting.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Black race; Black people; African Americans; Ethnology; Ethnic groups