Format:
1 online resource (xii, 354 p.)
ISBN:
9780822394839
,
0822394839
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822351245
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Obeah and other powers Durham, NC [u.a.] : Duke University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780822351245
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822351337
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822351242
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822351331
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Wodu
;
Karibik
;
Karibik
;
Wodu
;
Obeah
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1215/9780822394839
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822394839?locatt=mode:legacy
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