Book
Personality and conflict in Jamaica
At the University Press • Liverpool • Published In 1952 • Pages:
By: Kerr, Madeline.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source analyzes how socio-cultural situations affect personality formation, starting from the premise that contemporary Jamaicans are in a situation of culture contact and conflict as a result of the legacies of slavery and colonization. The author provides detail on the life cycle, especially child rearing techniques. Politics, religion, and folklore are discussed as “projective” systems that reflect the unconscious thoughts and feelings of the populace. Data collection methods include intensive interviewing and the use of psychological projective tests, such as the Lowenfeld Mosaic and Rorschach.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Behavior processes and personality
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Childhood activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jamaicans
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- Psychologist-5
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Marlene Martin ; 1975-1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1948
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sugartown [pseudonym], Jamaica; Patentville [psuedonym], Jamaica; Orange Grove [psuedonym], Jamaica
- NotesAdditional notes
- Madeline Kerr
- The place names used in the document are fictitious: "Sugartown", "Patentville" and "Orange Grove," see Clarke (1957) for similar fictitious names.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 58026087
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jamaica--Social conditions
- Jamaica--Race relations