"They do as they please" : the Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay /

This book is a companion to Neither Led nor Driven, published in 2004. It examines the secular aspects of culture in Jamaica, namely, material culture (architecture and home furnishings, dress, and food), rites of passage, language and oral culture, creative and performance arts, popular entertainme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Brian L., 1948-
Otros Autores: Johnson, Michele A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011.
Temas:
Social classes > Jamaica.
Creoles > Jamaica.
Classes sociales > Jamaïque.
Créoles > Jamaïque.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Civilization > British influences.
Creoles.
Social classes.
Social conditions
Jamaica > Social conditions.
Jamaica > Civilization > British influences.
Jamaïque > Conditions sociales.
Jamaica.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The struggle for the cultural soul of Jamaica after emancipation
  • 'Tu'n yuh han' mek fashion" : Creolizing material culture
  • Celebrating life, commemorating death: rites of passage
  • "Duppy know who fe frighten" : Jamaican Creole language and oral culure
  • "Lighten our darkness" : promoting "enlightened" intellectual activity
  • "Elevate the tastes and morals of the people" : art, music and performance
  • "Rationalizing" leisure : holidays and festivals
  • "De tune you playing no de one I dancing": popular entertainment
  • "Mens sana in corpore sano" : fashioning a Jamaican sporting culture
  • "The brotherhood of man" : gentlemen's clubs and fraternities
  • "Tom drunk but Tom no fool" : lifestyle peccadillos
  • "We are heathen" : Asian cultures in the culture war
  • Capturing the cultural soul of Jamaica.

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