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The Power of Sentiment: Love, Hierarchy, and the Jamaican Family Elite (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)
The Power of Sentiment Love Hierarchy and the Jamaican Family Elite - Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination Author:Lisa Douglass This ethnographic study of kinship examines the Jamaican upper class, a group previously neglected in research on the Caribbean family, despite its integral role in the kinship system. The book offers insights into what earlier studies termed the colour/class hierarchy, by considering how gender both affects what these categories represent and i... more »s itself a distinct dimension of the social order.« less