Book ID: CBB001252862

Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (2012)

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Paton, Diana (Editor)
Forde, Maarit (Editor)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xii + 353 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions---such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería---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.

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Review McNeal, Keith E. (2013) Review of "Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing". Hispanic American Historical Review (p. 691). unapi

Review Weaver, Karol K. (2013) Review of "Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 120-121). unapi

Essay Review Derby, Lauren (2013) Sorcery in the Black Atlantic: The Occult Arts in Comparative Perspective. Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 235-244). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Bilby, Kenneth (2012) An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 45). unapi

Chapter Bronfman, Alejandra (2012) On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 103). unapi

Chapter Savage, John (2012) Slave Poison/Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 149). unapi

Chapter Paton, Diana (2012) The Trials of Inspector Thomas: Policing and Ethnography in Jamaica. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 172). unapi

Chapter Cooper, Elizabeth (2012) The Open Secrets of Solares. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 220). unapi

Chapter Putnam, Lara (2012) Rites of Power and Rumors of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge in the Greater Caribbean, 1890--1940. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 243). unapi

Chapter Romberg, Raquel (2012) The Moral Economy of Brujeri under the Modern Colony: A Pirated Modernity?. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 288). unapi

Chapter Pettinger, Alasdair (2012) “Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!”: Making Sense of a Vodou Chant. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 80). unapi

Chapter Smith, Katherine (2012) Atis Rezistans: Gede and the Art of Vagabondaj. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 121). unapi

Chapter Forde, Maarit (2012) The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 198). unapi

Chapter Richman, Karen (2012) The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century. In: Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (p. 268). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kate Ramsey
John E. Crowley
Senior, Emily
Newman, Simon P
Iannini, Christopher P.
Wright, David
Concepts
Slavery and slaves
Medicine
Medicine and religion
Medicine, traditional
Obeah (cult)
Spiritualism
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
Early modern
21st century
Places
Caribbean
Atlantic world
United States
West Indies
Barbados
Cuba
Institutions
Native American Church
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