Culture and ideology in the English‐speaking Caribbean: a view from Jamaica

Anthropology in the English‐speaking Caribbean displays a tension between analyses that stress opposition and those that stress domination. I specify this antinomy as one between cultural opposition and ideological domination and illustrate how both themes can and should be incorporated within a single analytical perspective. To this end I offer a reinterpretation of the plural society debate and discuss some aspects of class culture and ideological domination in Kingston, Jamaica. [Caribbean, class, culture, ideology, domination, Jamaica]