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1 online resource (xii, 580 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-566) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Jamaica -- Social conditions.
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Jamaica. |
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Social conditions. |
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Social classes -- Jamaica.
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Social classes. |
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Creoles -- Jamaica.
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Creoles. |
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Jamaica -- Civilization -- British influences.
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Civilization. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Johnson, Michele A.
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Added Title |
Jamaican struggle for cultural freedom after Morant Bay |
Other Form: |
Print version: Moore, Brian L., 1948- "They do as they please". Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2011 9789766402440 (OCoLC)662407927 |
ISBN |
9781461906872 (electronic book) |
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1461906873 (electronic book) |
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9789766402440 |
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9766402442 |
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9789766402457 |
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9766402450 |
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