This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.
This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.
Foreword / Erna Brodber ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction / Maarit Forde and Diana Paton 1 Part I. Powers of Representation 1. An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song / Kenneth Bilby 45 2. "Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!": Making Sense of a Vodou Chant / Alasdair Pettinger 80 3. On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century / Alejandra Bronfman 103 4. Atis Rezistans: Gede and the Art of Vagabondaj / Katherine Smith 121 Part II. Modernity and Tradition in the Making 5. Slave Poison / Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique / John Savage 149 6. The Trials of Inspector Thomas: Policing and Ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton 172 7. The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde 198 8. The Open Secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper 220 Part III. Powers on the Move 9. Rites of Power and Rumors of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge in the Greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam 243 10. The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century / Karen Richman 268 11. The Moral Economy of Brujería under the Modern Colony: A Pirated Modernity? / Raquel Romberg 288 Afterword. Other Powers: Tylor's Principle, Father Williams's Temptations, and the Power of Banality / Stephan Palmíe 316 Contributors 341 Index 345
Foreword / Erna Brodber ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction / Maarit Forde and Diana Paton 1 Part I. Powers of Representation 1. An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song / Kenneth Bilby 45 2. "Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!": Making Sense of a Vodou Chant / Alasdair Pettinger 80 3. On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century / Alejandra Bronfman 103 4. Atis Rezistans: Gede and the Art of Vagabondaj / Katherine Smith 121 Part II. Modernity and Tradition in the Making 5. Slave Poison / Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique / John Savage 149 6. The Trials of Inspector Thomas: Policing and Ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton 172 7. The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde 198 8. The Open Secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper 220 Part III. Powers on the Move 9. Rites of Power and Rumors of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge in the Greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam 243 10. The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century / Karen Richman 268 11. The Moral Economy of Brujería under the Modern Colony: A Pirated Modernity? / Raquel Romberg 288 Afterword. Other Powers: Tylor's Principle, Father Williams's Temptations, and the Power of Banality / Stephan Palmíe 316 Contributors 341 Index 345
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