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Reciprocal arrangements: The life story of “Rosalind”—Woman worker, mother, and Jamaican
Author(s) -
Bolles Lynn
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
feminist anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2643-7961
DOI - 10.1002/fea2.12023
Subject(s) - friendship , battle , reciprocal , ethnography , gender studies , revelation , politics , literature , art , history , genealogy , sociology , anthropology , philosophy , political science , law , ancient history , linguistics , social science
Abstract For thirty‐four years, there was talk, revelation, and friendship between two women, ending in 2012 when “Rosalind” lost her battle with cancer. Our conversations continue in materials and thoughts left behind via handwritten letters that were sent to the ethnographer by Rosalind over the years. I present these letters in the form of a life story because those documents chronicle Rosalind's personal experiences and emotions as shared with me. The fragments of her letters narrate her days as a working‐class woman living through the social, economic, and political violence and uncertainty during the 1980s and 1990s in Jamaica.