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Exceptional violence : embodied citizenship in transnational Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Deborah A., 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Violent crimes--Jamaica.
- Violent crimes.
- Social classes--Jamaica.
- Social classes.
- Slavery--Jamaica--History.
- Slavery.
- Reparations for historical injustices--Jamaica.
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This ethnography of violence in Jamaica repudiates cultural explanations for violence, arguing that its roots lie in deep racialized and gendered inequalities produced in imperial slave economies.
- Contents:
- Dead bodies, 2004-2005
- Deviant bodies, 2005/1945
- Spectacular bodies, 1816/2007
- Public bodies, 2003
- Resurrected bodies, 1963/2007
- Coda. Repairing bodies.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613292285
- 9781283292283
- 1283292289
- 9780822394556
- 0822394553
- OCLC:
- 757533875
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