In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider
how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and
Santeria-have been understood and represented across the Caribbean
since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti,
Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the
wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of
power within which Caribbean religions have been produced,
modified, appropriated, and policed. The "other powers" of the
book's title have helped to shape, or attempted to curtail,
Caribbean religions and healing practices. These powers include
those of capital and colonialism; of states that criminalize some
practices and legitimize others; of occupying armies that rewrite
constitutions and reorient economies; of writers, filmmakers, and
scholars who represent Caribbean practices both to those with
little knowledge of the region and to those who live there; and,
not least, of the millions of people in the Caribbean whose
relationships with one another, as well as with capital and the
state, have long been mediated and experienced through religious
formations and discourses. Contributors. Kenneth Bilby, Erna
Brodber, Alejandra Bronfman, Elizabeth Cooper, Maarit Forde,
Stephan Palmie, Diana Paton, Alasdair Pettinger, Lara Putnam, Karen
Richman, Raquel Romberg, John Savage, Katherine Smith
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