Changes Over Time and Space in the East Indian Family in Rural Trinidad

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2999106
AutoresJoseph Nev Adomsky (University of Benin, autor de correspondencia)
Año1980
Volumen11
Número4
Páginas433-456
Fecha de publicación1980-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850
EditorialUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/jcfs.11.4.433
OpenAlexW2926817923
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas7

Much of the anthropological literature on the East Indians in Trinidad focuses on cultural retentions and social persistence. Arriving as indentured laborers from India, the majority of Indians ultimately remained on the island and settled in rural communities where they are said to have reconstructed a village organization similar in form and content to villages in north India. The Indian family especially is said to have been successfully reconstituted. This paper challenges this prevalent assumption. Data on family patterns in India for two time periods is compared with data on East Indian family patterns in Trinidad, also for two time periods. On the basis of this evidence it would seem that the Indian family has not, in fact, been able to maintain its traditional integration in the face of migration, indenture and fifty years of social change. In short, Trinidad's East Indians are a long way from India in space, time and social structure

Ethnology · Face (sociological concept) · Geography · North east · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Urban and Rural Development Challenges