Raymond T. Smith

(PhD, Cambridge 1954) Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, has carried out research in the Caribbean, West Africa and the U.S.A. on a range of topics that include kinship, class and race; social and political conflict, and transformation; urban poverty and family life; social and cultural change among African and East Indian populations; and class consciousness in low income groups in Chicago. (Retired 6/95)

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Publications:

1987 Hierarchy and the dual marriage system in West Indian society. In J. Collier and S.J. Yanagisako, eds., Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 163-196.

1987 Kinship and class in Chicago. In L. Mullings, ed., Cities of the United States: Studies in Urban Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 292-313.

1988 Kinship and Class in the West Indies: A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1992 Race, class and gender in the transition to freedom. In F. McGlyn and S. Drescher, eds., The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics and Culture after Slavery. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 257-290.

1996 The Matrifocal Family: Power, Pluralism and Politics. NY: Routledge.