MARKET PAPER · FAMILY RECIPE
02 / FOOD
Taste A Yaad
Food through memory, identity, class, region, migration, ritual, family, school, funerals and celebration. It is never only about recipes.
Choose a thread
Reason Through
Jamaica
Pick a doorway. Follow a sound, a saying, an object or a memory and see where it takes you.
Search across the shelves
Looking for something particular?
Try a place, person, belief, object or old memory. The cultural discovery search connects the material already inside Yaadology.
01
Language carries memory
How Wi Talk
A living collection of Jamaican sayings, proverbs, expressions, riddles and the meanings, memories and feelings carried inside them.
What does this mean?
Who used to say it?
Do young people still use it?
What feeling does it carry?
No made-up etymology. When an origin is uncertain, Yaadology says so. Jamaican language remains Jamaican language.
Folklore, warnings & “dem seh”
Signs, Superstitions
& Things Dem Tell Wi
The black cat. The itching palm. The ringing ear. The dream somebody insists must mean something.
This collection documents inherited beliefs without mocking the people who hold them and without presenting belief as proven fact.
Who taught you this?
What was supposed to happen?
Did your family believe it?
Do you still?
Enter the dedicated superstitions collection →
Cultural memory
Things Wi Used To Do
Childhood games. Sunday routines. Grand Market. Radio habits. School traditions. Family rituals. Community practices and ordinary ways of life that are changing or disappearing.
COLLECTION IN DEVELOPMENT · Contributions will open when the review and permissions pathway is ready.
PLAY
HOME
CELEBRATION
COMMUNITY
SIDE A · 45 RPM · RADIO
03 / SOUND
Hear Jamaica
Mento, gospel, reggae, dancehall, sound systems, school songs, radio, jingles, street sounds, church sounds and oral memories.
EXERCISE BOOK · TERM 1
04 / CHILDHOOD
Pickney Days
School shoes, break time, cousins, chores, games, exam culture and growing up Jamaican, remembered honestly without romanticising harm.
NAME: __________________
SCHOOL: ________________
“What did break time sound like?”
SCHOOL: ________________
“What did break time sound like?”
05 · Belief & belonging
Church, Faith
& Sunday Best
Sunday and Sabbath culture, hymns, choirs, crusades, conventions, church food and generational change. Jamaica's many faith traditions need room to remain distinct.
06 · Family & home
Inside Di Yard
Grandparents, aunties, cousins and neighbours. Household rules, family secrets, remittances, caregiving, love and conflict, all held with dignity.
07 · Migration & diaspora
From Yaad
To Foreign
Leaving, arriving, barrels, accents, homesickness, family separation, returning and dual identity. Diaspora stories are Jamaican stories too.
Fourteen starting points
Which Parish Yuh From?
A future story map for local memories, photographs, sayings, food traditions, people and community histories. Fourteen places. Countless Jamaicas.
Kingston
St. Andrew
St. Catherine
Clarendon
Manchester
St. Elizabeth
Westmoreland
Hanover
St. James
Trelawny
St. Ann
St. Mary
Portland
St. Thomas
Parish collections will open as verified stories and authentic materials are added.
08 · Cultural change
Jamaica Then /
Jamaica Now
THEN
What do people remember?
NOW
What has shifted, and for whom?
Not everything was better before. Generations can compare school, family, work, manners, music, media and community without forcing one tidy answer.
What disappeared?What survived?What changed shape?What got better?What became harder?What did younger Jamaicans create for themselves?
Disagreement is welcome here. Memory, experience and evidence do not always arrive at the same answer.
L+L
A Yaadology conversation series
Lime & Learn
Come fi di reasoning.
Stay fi di story.
Jamaican culture, history, memory, humour and learning through audio, video, guests and good conversation.
SERIES IN DEVELOPMENT · Episodes will be added when the recordings are ready.