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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah
- Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
Engelsk Paperback
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah
- Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
Engelsk Paperback

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Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume I, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of “obeah.” A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifying African witchcraft. These preoccupations revealed the fears that bound whites to one another. At the same time, persons accused of obeah sought legal vindication and marshaled their own spiritual and medicinal technologies to fortify the cultural heritages, religious identities, and life systems of African-diasporic communities in Trinidad.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781478014850
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
1478014857
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Udg. Dato:
7 okt 2022
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
7 okt 2022
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Andet, 2023
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