Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation

by Chandra Jayawardena

Overview

This study concerns two communities of sugar plantation labourers, the descendants of indentured immigrants from India, who live in the county of Berbice, British Guiana. The study is focused on the analysis of social conflict: the factors that cause it, the forms it takes and its social consequences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000323542
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/10/2021
Series:	LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	470 KB

About the Author

Chandra Jayawardena

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION 2. HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND 3. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION 4. THE BASIS OF SOCIAL CONFLICT 5. DISPUTES OVER PRESTIGE 6. SOCIAL CONTROL—THE COMMUNITY 7. SOCIAL CONTROL—THE COURTS 8. CONCLUSION