Obeah and other powers: the politics of Caribbean religion and healing
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 va...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Durham, NC
Duke University Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Voodooism
B Karibik B Karibik / Voodooism / Obeah |
| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Voodooism (Caribbean Area) B Obeah (Cult) ; Caribbean Area B Voodooism Caribbean Area B Caribbean Area ; Religion B Obeah (Cult) (Caribbean Area) B Voodooism ; Caribbean Area B Caribbean Area Religion B Religion and politics Caribbean Area B Caribbean Area Religion B Religion And Politics (Caribbean Area) B Obeah (Cult) Caribbean Area B Electronic books B Religion and politics ; Caribbean Area |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 354 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-9483-9 0-8223-9483-9 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1215/9780822394839 |
