num_pages: 312
description: The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich historical and ethnographic approach that seeks to correct several misconceptions in existing literaturethe true origin of dreadlocks for instance. It will interest religion scholars historians scholars of Black studies and a general audience interested in the movement and how Rastafarians settled in other countries.
language: English
title: Rastafari: Roots and Ideology
publisher: Syracuse University Press