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Obeah and other powers : the politics of Caribbean religion and healing / Diana Paton and Maarit Forde, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obeah (Cult)--Caribbean Area.
- Obeah (Cult).
- Vodou--Caribbean Area.
- Vodou.
- Religion and politics--Caribbean Area.
- Religion and politics.
- Caribbean Area--Religion.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.
- Contents:
- An (un)natural mystic in the air : images of Obeah in Caribbean song / Kenneth Bilby
- "Eh! Eh! Bomba, hen! Hen!" : making sense of a vodou chant / Alasdair Pettinger
- On swelling : remedies and rituals in colonial medicine / Alejandra Bronfman
- Atis Rezistans : Gede and the art of vagabondaj / Katherine Smith
- Slave poison/slave medicine : the persistence of Obeah in early 19th century Martinique / John Savage
- The Trials of Inspector Thomas : policing and ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton
- The moral economy of spiritual work : money and rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde
- The open secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper
- Rites of power and rumours of race : the circulation of supernatural knowledge and sacrifice tales in the greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam
- The vodou state and the Protestant nation : Haiti in the long twentieth century / Karen E. Richman
- The moral economy of brujería under the modern colony : a pirated modernity? / Raquel Romberg
- Afterword: Other powers : Tylor's principle, Father Williams' temptations, and the power of banality / Stephan Palmié.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613582430
- 9781280487200
- 1280487208
- 9780822394839
- 0822394839
- OCLC:
- 787874174
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