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The Cultural Politics of Obeah - Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World (Paperback)
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The Cultural Politics of Obeah - Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World (Paperback)
Series: Critical Perspectives on Empire
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An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean
spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in
everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, the book
results from extensive research on the development and
implementation of anti-obeah legislation. It includes analysis of
hundreds of prosecutions for obeah, and an account of the complex
and multiple political meanings of obeah in Caribbean societies.
Diana Paton moves beyond attempts to define and describe what obeah
was, instead showing the political imperatives that often drove
interpretations and discussions of it. She shows that
representations of obeah were entangled with key moments in
Caribbean history, from eighteenth-century slave rebellions to the
formation of new nations after independence. Obeah was at the same
time a crucial symbol of the Caribbean's alleged lack of modernity,
a site of fear and anxiety, and a thoroughly modern and
transnational practice of healing itself.
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