A Man Divided: Michael Garfield Smith: Jamaican Poet And Anthropologist, 1921-1993 (the Press Uwi Biography Series)

Michael Garfield Smith was an internationally distinguished anthropologist. He was also a poet of merit, but few people knew that or really understood the conflicts, personal and professional, that made him, in the opinion of many who knew him, appear arrogant and unapproachable. This account tries to show the whole man, and it is to date the only biography of M. G. Smith. "A Man Divided" is a brief account of M. G. Smith the man, "the talented, hardworking Jamaican and how he made his way, rather than of the academic performance of Professor M. G. Smith the internationally distinguished anthropologist". Preface 'Informative biography of the late M.G. Smith, the Jamaican-born social anthropologist whose contributions as Caribbeanist, Africanist, and theoretician will be long valued'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. Douglas Hall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 160-168) And Index.