Title Exceptional violence : embodied citizenship in transnational Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas

Published Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) : illustrations Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents Dead bodies, 2004-2005 -- Deviant bodies, 2005/1945 -- Spectacular bodies, 1816/2007 -- Public bodies, 2003 -- Resurrected bodies, 1963/2007 -- Coda. Repairing bodies 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Violent crimes -- Jamaica Social classes -- Jamaica Slavery -- Jamaica -- History Reparations for historical injustices -- Jamaica TRUE CRIME -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Reparations for historical injustices Slavery Social classes Violent crimes Gewaltkriminalität Sklaverei Gewalt Våld -- Jamaica. Våld -- historia -- Jamaica. Våld -- sociala aspekter -- Jamaica. Slaveri -- Jamaica. Jamaica Jamaika Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822394556 0822394553 1283292289 9781283292283 9786613292285 6613292281

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