This is Volume IX of eighteen in a collection on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1956 and using language of the time, this monologue looks at the family system in Guianese families.
FOREWORD BY MEYER FORTES, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, SECTION I, I. INTRODUCTION, SECTION II, II. THE HOUSEHOLD, III. ECONOMIC FEATURES OF THE HOUSEHOLD GROUP, IV. COMPOSITION OF THE HOUSEHOLD GROUP, V. THE TIME FACTOR IN RELATION TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE HOUSEHOLD GROUP, VI. THE NORMS OF DOMESTIC GROUPING, VII. THE KINSHIP SYSTEM AND MARRIAGE, SECTION III, VIII. THE FAMILY SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF GUIANESE SOCIETY, IX. HYPOTHESES AND THE PROBLEM OF 'EXPLANATION', X. CONCLUSION, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
