عنوان

Mystic Medicine:

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TLpq2393727608

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Mystic Medicine:

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Wumkes, Jake

Title Proper by Another Author

Afro-Jamaican Religio-Cultural Epistemology and the Decolonization of Health

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Reiter, Bernd

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of South Florida

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

103

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Body granting the degree

University of South Florida

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2020

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The underlying motivation for this thesis is the position that colonialism, or coloniality, continues to thrive as an ideological and institutional framework all over the world, to the detriment of the majority of the population of the earth, and particularly of indigenous peoples and the African diaspora. Thus, what is sought here is a decolonization both of mind and institutions. Looking at the case of Jamaica, one can see how coloniality continues to undermine the beliefs, behaviors, institutions, and overall well-being of the majority African-descended population of the island in many ways both culturally and economically. I narrow my focus in this thesis on the official biomedical healthcare system and its relationship to indigenous Afro-Jamaican healing practices and the people it theoretically seeks to serve; as attested to by many scholars, this healthcare system is failing the majority population of the Caribbean region as a whole, and Jamaica is no exception.

Caribbean

Collectivism

Coloniality

Healing

Holism

Rastafari

Reiter, Bernd

Wumkes, Jake

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