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Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean : African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago /

The first book-length work to compare and contrast Afro- and Indo-Caribbean materials in a systematic and multidimensional manner, this volume makes fresh and innovative contributions to anthropology, religious studies, and the historiography of modernity. By giving both religious subcultures and th...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: McNeal, Keith E.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue : ecstasy
  • Catching power, playing deep
  • Hierarchy and heterodoxy in a maze of color
  • Serving the Orishas
  • Doing the Mother's work
  • Sides and paths : spirits and transculturation in the southern Caribbean
  • Religion and the politics of diaspora in the era of postcolonial multiculturalism
  • Epilogue : ecstasy in exile.