6. South America and the Caribbean

Abstract

T. A. DE FUNDIA, J. G. DRAGUNS, and L. PHILLIPS compare American and Argentine inpatients of mental hospitals regarding coping styles. They find that a passive style of coping is resorted to by Argentines, whereas aggressive symptoms characterize Americans. Some methodological biases and short comings of their research are noted by the reviewer. The features of cannabis as a culture complex in India seem, according to V. RUBIN, to have diffused in Jamaica during the nineteenth century. On the basis of an intensive study of thirty users of cannabis in Jamaica, the author finds striking differences with regards to attitudes towards and use of cannabis between the lower and the middle classes.