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The deepest dye : obeah, Hosay, and race in the Atlantic world / Aisha Khan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khan, Aisha, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obeah (Cult).
- Tenth of Muḥarram.
- Postcolonialism--West Indies.
- Postcolonialism.
- Identification (Religion).
- British colonies.
- Civilization--European influences.
- Race relations.
- West Indies--Race relations.
- West Indies.
- West Indies--Civilization--European influences.
- West Indies--Religious life and customs.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America.
- Great Britain.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the "African" supernatural practice of obeah and the "Indian" mourning festival of Hosay. The British criminalized both, establishing hierarchies through racial and religious identities still relevant to postcolonial power dynamics, as well as justice movements"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. A Parallax View
- 2. Plantations and Climates of Crisis
- 3. The Performance of Shadows
- 4. The Trials of Obeah Today
- 5. The Spirit of Hosay Today
- 6. Identifications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780674987821
- 0674987829
- OCLC:
- 1198016735
- Publisher Number:
- 99991717620
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