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SOBO, ELISA JANINE One Blood: Jamaican Body
Albany, NY, State University of New York Press; The Body in Culture, History, and Religion Ser. 1993, 3rd printing. (ISBN: 0791414302) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii, 329 pp. illus. biblio. index; 23 cm. Tight, clean text. Corner crease/back cover. Medicine in Jamaica. Medical anthropology. "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." - Publisher. Very Good.
Offered for US$ 15.00 by: Left Coast Books - Book number: 028495