Parentesco y tradicionalidad: un estudio etnosocial de los inmigrantes árabes de Cuba (1870-1957)

Abstract

Between the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century several thousand of arabs had been lived in Cuba and developes a social structure typical from their culture, with the next characteristics: endogamous marriages between peoples from the same village or country and even between consanguineous kins or affines ones; it's used to be characteristical of the agrarian and commercial ecosystem of the migrants. For years the structure shifts because economic, cultural and demographic conditions toward ethnic asimilation.