RT Book
T1 Obeah and other powers: the politics of Caribbean religion and healing
A2 Paton, Diana 1969-
A2 Forde, Maarit 1973-
LA English
PP Durham, NC u.a.
PB Duke University Press
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/66896295X
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BL2565
SN 9780822351245
SN 9780822351337
SN 0822351242
SN 0822351331
K1 Obeah (Cult) : Caribbean Area
K1 Vodou : Caribbean Area
K1 Religion And Politics : Caribbean Area
K1 Caribbean Area : Religion
K1 Voodooism : Caribbean Area
K1 Religion and politics : Caribbean Area
K1 Aufsatzsammlung