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Culture and Customs of Jamaica
Martin Mordecai
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Description for Culture and Customs of Jamaica
Hardback. This comprehensive volume provides an in-depth survey of Jamaican people and their history, land, religion, education, language, social customs, media and cinema, literature, music, and performing and visual arts. Series: Cultures and Customs of the World. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; GTB; HBJK; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and the reggae music scene, but there is much more to this Caribbean country. Culture and Customs of Jamaica richly surveys the fuller wealth of the Caribbean nation, focusing on its people, history, religion, education, language, social customs, media and cinema, literature, music, and performing and visual arts. Jamaican Creole and the education system, which are not often discussed in volumes aimed at a general audience, are also examined here. Students and other interested readers will witness the unveiling of this complicated and unique country within this volume. Indispensable for the its ... Read more
Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and the reggae music scene, but there is much more to this Caribbean country. Culture and Customs of Jamaica richly surveys the fuller wealth of the Caribbean nation, focusing on its people, history, religion, education, language, social customs, media and cinema, literature, music, and performing and visual arts. Jamaican Creole and the education system, which are not often discussed in volumes aimed at a general audience, are also examined here. Students and other interested readers will witness the unveiling of this complicated and unique country within this volume. Indispensable for the its ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Cultures and Customs of the World
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313305344
SKU
V9780313305344
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About Martin Mordecai
MARTIN MORDECAI is a former Jamaican career diplomat and civil servant, now resident in Toronto as a freelance writer and photographer, and businessman./e PAMELA MORDECAI, is an independent scholar and poet who has written over a dozen books in language arts for high school students and has edited anthologies of Caribbean literature./e She is publisher of Sandberry Press, a ... Read more
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