Archival irruptions: constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica

"In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner offers a new method for reading colonial and missionary archives by focusing on "irruptions," moments when marginalized epistemologies break through the narrative field of a Eurocentric archive. Through a microhistory of the Moravian archive...

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Subtitles:Constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica
Main Author: Gerbner, Katharine 1983- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Durham Duke University Press 2025
In:Year: 2025
Series/Journal:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Further subjects:B Obeah (Cult) (Jamaica) History 18th century
B Witchcraft History (Jamaica)
B Black people (Jamaica) Religion History
B Black people ; Religion
B Witchcraft ; History
B Religions African influences
B Obeah (Cult) History 18th century (Jamaica)
B Cults (Jamaica) History
B 1700-1799
B Cults History (Jamaica)
B Cults ; History
B Religion and sociology (Jamaica) History
B Religions ; African influences
B Religion and sociology ; History
B Witchcraft (Jamaica) History
B Jamaica
B Religion and sociology History (Jamaica)
B Obeah (Cult)
B Black people Religion History (Jamaica)
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Gerbner, Katharine 1983- (Author)
Duke University Press 2025
Print Book 1950045722