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Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad. Africans in the white colonial imagination / Volume I, Obeah :

"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 the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hucks, Tracey E., 1965- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Collection:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The formation of a slave colony: race, nation, and identity
  • Obeah trials and social cannibalism in Trinidad's early slave
  • society
  • Obeah, piety, and poison in the slave son: representations of African religions in Trinidadian colonial literature
  • Marked in the genuine African way: liberated Africans and Obeah doctoring in post-slavery Trinidad
  • C'est vrai
  • It is true.