One Blood: The Jamaican Body

by Elisa J. Sobo

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

Uncanny insight into the Jamaican/African culture.

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.