One Blood

One BloodOne 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

The book describes and analyzes key assumptions

This book will be of interest to those concerned with Iberian cultural studies and with how theater reflects on and contributes to contemporary political dialogue

Nervous Reactions considers Victorian responses to Romanticism

Explores the connections between muteness and the complicated acts of survival

This chapter examines the factors that influence photosynthesis in fruit trees

and cultural power

From her cell in a women’s prison

The development of American Jewish denominations is viewed as more a matter of individual choice than family heritage

tortured by guilt and secret passion

The Maltese Falcon

Locals insist she must be one of the jinn—a supernatural being—but Gabriel refuses to buy into the folklore

In order to understand how a sense of social affinity emerges within individuals