Name: The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World (Critical Perspectives on Empire) (en Inglés)
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Author: Paton, Diana
ISBN: 9781107615991

portada The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World (Critical Perspectives on Empire) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Diana Paton

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

376

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9781107615991

Categorías

Islas del caribe
Historia de américa
Religión y política
Religiones y creencias africanas tradicionales
Otras religiones indígenas, étnicas y populares

The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World (Critical Perspectives on Empire) (en Inglés)

Diana Paton (Autor) · Cambridge University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World (Critical Perspectives on Empire) (en Inglés)"

An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, the book results from extensive research on the development and implementation of anti-obeah legislation. It includes analysis of hundreds of prosecutions for obeah, and an account of the complex and multiple political meanings of obeah in Caribbean societies. Diana Paton moves beyond attempts to define and describe what obeah was, instead showing the political imperatives that often drove interpretations and discussions of it. She shows that representations of obeah were entangled with key moments in Caribbean history, from eighteenth-century slave rebellions to the formation of new nations after independence. Obeah was at the same time a crucial symbol of the Caribbean's alleged lack of modernity, a site of fear and anxiety, and a thoroughly modern and transnational practice of healing itself.