Obeah and Other Powers
The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
Herausgeber: Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit
Obeah and Other Powers
The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
Herausgeber: Paton, Diana; Forde, Maarit
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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.
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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.
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- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 376
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 658g
- ISBN-13: 9780822351245
- ISBN-10: 0822351242
- Artikelnr.: 34229104
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 376
- Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 658g
- ISBN-13: 9780822351245
- ISBN-10: 0822351242
- Artikelnr.: 34229104
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Diana Paton is a Reader in Caribbean history at Newcastle University. She is the author of No Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780–1870 and editor of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica and, with Pamela Scully, Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, all also published by Duke University Press. Maarit Forde is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
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
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
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