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The West Indian Family

The Negro Family in British Guiana

Family Structure and Social Status in the Villages. By Dr. Raymond T. Smith. (International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.) Pp. xvi+282+8 plates. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd.; New York: Grove Press, Inc., in association with the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University College of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1956.) 28s. net.

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MAIR, L. The West Indian Family. Nature 178, 765–766 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178765a0

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