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Culture and ideology in the English‐speaking Caribbean: a view from Jamaica
Author(s) -
AUSTIN DIANE J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1983.10.2.02a00010
Subject(s) - ideology , opposition (politics) , reinterpretation , antinomy , sociology , plural , gender studies , anthropology , aesthetics , philosophy , epistemology , political science , linguistics , law , politics
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]