Diana (Hrsg.) Paton

Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing

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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.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Forde, Maarit (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8223-5133-7
EAN: 9780822351337
Produktnummer: 11835968
Verlag: Duke Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 354 S.
Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.2 cm 535 g
Gewicht: 535

Über den Autor

Diana Paton is a Reader in Caribbean history at Newcastle University. She is the author of No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870 and editor of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica and, with Pamela Scully, Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, all also published by Duke University Press.Maarit Forde is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.