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An Ethnography of Cosmopoli...
This ethnography of social life in Kingston, Jamaica, is also a study of the relationship between two major, often conflictive, forces in current cultural experience, community and cosmopolitanism. People from the Caribbean - subject to slavery, the plantation economy, and labor migration - have experienced one of the longest exposures to a global political and economic order of any social grouping. For centuries, Jamaicans have lived at a crossroads of transnational economic social and cultural dynamics. The Jamaican social milieu is characterized by massively heterogeneous and creative cultu
Monografía
monografia Rebiun30717965 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun30717965 m d cr -n--------- 130418s2000||||||| s|||||||||||eng|d 0-7734-4426-2 AU-PeEL eng AU-PeEL AU-PeEL 305.80097292 Wardle, Huon An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica Caribbean Cosmopolitans electronic resource] 1st ed Lewiston The Edwin Mellen Press 2000 Lewiston Lewiston The Edwin Mellen Press 1 online resource (256 p.) 1 online resource (256 p.) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Caribbean Studies Description based upon print version of record AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COSMOPOLITANISM IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I; Chapter 1 - Searching for Community; Chapter 2 - Jeanette's Family; FIG. 1; Chapter 3 - Marshy's Fish and Bammy; Part II; Plate 1: Aunt Erica Writing Accounts; Plate 2: Marshy; Plate 3: Cudjoe and Suzie in the Bar; Chapter 4 - Argonauts of the Western Atlantic; Chapter 5 - The Arena of Play; Chapter 6 - A Sense of Nearness and Farness; Part III; Chapter 7 - An Imagined Drama of the Soul Chapter 8 - Thinking Through the Nine NightChapter 9 - Finding Community; Epilogue - Living World Society; Notes; Bibliography; Index This ethnography of social life in Kingston, Jamaica, is also a study of the relationship between two major, often conflictive, forces in current cultural experience, community and cosmopolitanism. People from the Caribbean - subject to slavery, the plantation economy, and labor migration - have experienced one of the longest exposures to a global political and economic order of any social grouping. For centuries, Jamaicans have lived at a crossroads of transnational economic social and cultural dynamics. The Jamaican social milieu is characterized by massively heterogeneous and creative cultu Jamaica -- Ethnic relations Jamaica -- History -- Maroon War, 1795-1796 Maroons -- Jamaica -- Ethnic identity Maroons -- Jamaica -- History Kingston (Jamaica)- Social life and customs Jamaica- Civilization- Philosophy Electronic books 0-7734-7552-4 Caribbean Studies