Family and Colour in JamaicaEyre & Spottiswoode, 1953 - 196 pages |
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Page 158
... individual himself there is much less concern with kin and kin groupings . The contemporary English upper middle class family , if certain essential differences such as colour qualifica- tions are taken into consideration , represents ...
... individual himself there is much less concern with kin and kin groupings . The contemporary English upper middle class family , if certain essential differences such as colour qualifica- tions are taken into consideration , represents ...
Page 168
... individual is a biological inheritance which is not subject to change . ' Colour ' as interpreted in Jamaica consists in the evaluation of data concerned not only with actual skin colour , but with features , hair formation , and skin ...
... individual is a biological inheritance which is not subject to change . ' Colour ' as interpreted in Jamaica consists in the evaluation of data concerned not only with actual skin colour , but with features , hair formation , and skin ...
Page 170
... individual full scope to express himself . He can , through the mechanism of the trance , attain a degree of identification with the spirits and so with superordinate powers which are denied him in his daily life . It offers him ...
... individual full scope to express himself . He can , through the mechanism of the trance , attain a degree of identification with the spirits and so with superordinate powers which are denied him in his daily life . It offers him ...
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