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Language: en
Pages: 373
Pages: 373
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-13 - Publisher: Duke University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 377
Pages: 377
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-11 - Publisher: NYU Press
A comprehensive introduction to the syncretic religions developed in the Caribbean region Creolization—the coming together of diverse beliefs and practices to
Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies.
Language: en
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-13 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critiq