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

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

Paton, Diana
Forde, Maarit

Paperback

Caribbean HistoryReligion General

ISBN10: 0822351331
ISBN13: 9780822351337
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 13 2012
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.17
Language: English
In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería-have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed. The other powers of the book's title have helped to shape, or attempted to curtail, Caribbean religions and healing practices. These powers include those of capital and colonialism; of states that criminalize some practices and legitimize others; of occupying armies that rewrite constitutions and reorient economies; of writers, filmmakers, and scholars who represent Caribbean practices both to those with little knowledge of the region and to those who live there; and, not least, of the millions of people in the Caribbean whose relationships with one another, as well as with capital and the state, have long been mediated and experienced through religious formations and discourses.

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