Description: Cultural Politics of Obeah : Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World, Hardcover by Paton, Diana, ISBN 1107025656, ISBN-13 9781107025653, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah, and its place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, th results from extensive research on the development and implementation of anti-obeah legislation. It includes analysis of hundreds of prosecutions for obeah, and an account of the complex and multiple political meanings of obeah in Caribbean societies. Diana Paton moves beyond attempts to define and describe what obeah was, instead showing the political imperatives that often drove interpretations and discussions of it. She shows that representations of obeah were entangled with key moments in Caribbean history, from eighteenth-century slave rebellions to the formation of new nations after independence. Obeah was at the same time a crucial symbol of the Caribbean's alleged lack of modernity, a site of fear and anxiety, and a thoroughly modern and transnational practice of healing itself"--
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Book Title: Cultural Politics of Obeah : Religion, Colonialism and Modernity
Number of Pages: 373 Pages
Publication Name: Cultural Politics of Obeah : Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Europe / Renaissance, Religion, Politics & State, Cults
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Diana Paton
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
