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...
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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