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Duncan, Ronald J., Ed. – 1979
This monograph contains seven papers presented at a 1977 symposium held to reevaluate the 1947 research work, "The People of Puerto Rico." (1) Sidney Mintz discusses the role of Puerto Rico in modern social science. (2) Eric Wolf, one of the authors of the 1947 work, comments retrospectively on some of the conceptual and methodological…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Colonialism, Cultural Traits, Marxism
Download full textSokolovsky, Jay; Sokolovsky, Joan – 1983
A volume devoted to aging and the aged in Third World societies focuses on ethnographic case studies from Papua New Guinea, China, India, the Sudan, and Mexico. The first of five articles, "Sweeping Men and Harmless Women: Responsibility and Gender Identity in Later Life" (Dorothy Ayers Counts), examines the perception of gender over the…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Case Studies, Developing Nations, Ethnography
