Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah : Africans in the White Colonial Imagination, Volume 1 / Volume I, Obeah : Obeah : Volume I,

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hucks, Tracey E., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religions > African influences.
Religion and sociology.
Religion and law.
Postcolonialism.
Obeah (Cult)
Cults > Law and legislation.
Black people > Religion.
Postcolonialism > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad.
Religion and law > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History.
Cults > Law and legislation > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History.
Black people > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > Religion > History.
Religion and sociology > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History.
Obeah (Cult) > Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad > History.
Trinidad and Tobago > Trinidad.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • 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.

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