Question

Anthropologist Carol Stack studied an impoverished urban African American community called the Flats in a town outside Chicago in the early 1970s. Identify the main creative and complex survival strategy that Stack identified in her ethnography?

Answer 1

Answer:

complex survival strategy based on extended kinship networks.

Explanation:

Carol Stack discovered during her studies a complex survival strategy based on extended kinship networks. This dynamic set of kinship networks were based on mutual reciprocity where survive very harsh periods of poverty and long-term unemployment, by helping one another out and relying on family and those close enough to become family.