One Blood: The Jamaican Body
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Book Overview
One Blood offers a wealth of ethnographic material, skillfully using traditional Jamaican images and expressions to present a coherent and systematic depiction of the Jamaican body, of how it works and of how health is maintained. Sobo explains some of the more complex issues of medical anthropology in a clear and accessible fashion and shows how gender and kinship tensions are expressed through culturally constructed syndromes. The book explores the ways in which the body serves as a medium for the expression of ideas about the social and moral order. Childhood socializations and ideas about gender relations, kinship, social obligations, sorcery, and deceit are investigated in association with beliefs about nutrition, procreation, sexuality, cleanliness, bodily flow, and sickness.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0791414299
ISBN13:9780791414293
Release Date:July 1993
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:344 Pages
Customer Reviews
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Uncanny insight into the Jamaican/African culture.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Ms Sobo has done a awesome job of presenting details about the thought process which goes on in the minds of Afro/Jamaicans. And Jamaicans in general. I wish I would have read this book a decade ago.
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