Obeah and other powers: the politics of Caribbean religion and healing
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 va...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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| Publicado: |
Durham, NC [u.a.]
Duke University Press
2012
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| En: | Año: 2012 |
| Volúmenes / Artículos: | Mostrar volumes / artículos. |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Vudú
B Karibik B Obeah |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Obeah (Cult) (Caribbean Area)
B Vodou (Caribbean Area) B Caribbean Area Religión B Religion and politics Caribbean Area B Religion And Politics (Caribbean Area) B Colección de artículos B Obeah (Cult) Caribbean Area B Voodooism Caribbean Area B Caribbean Area Religión |
| Acceso en línea: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) Klappentext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Electrónico
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| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0822351242 |