Rastafari Voices
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1986.2.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Leib, Elliot
label: Collection Creator
content: Romano, Renee
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content: Elliot Leib films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Film reels (58 minutes, color sound; 2072 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1978
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documenting selected aspects of Biblically-inspired religious discourse, ritual, and music among the Rastafari of Jamaica. Emphasis is given to belief and practice among members of the Nyabinghi Order, the most fundamentalist sect of the Rasta movement. Film depicts instances of prayer, communal discourse known as "reasoning" which is accompanied by the sacramental use of ganja (marijuana), and the 1978 Heroes Park Nyabinghi celebration which was held to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the birthday of Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Interview footage provides some insights into the generational diversity and absence of orthodoxy within the movement.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Ritual dance drumming Nyabinghi Jamaica ; Prayer Rastafari Jamaica ; Drums akete Nyabinghi Jamaica ; Ideology reasoning Rastafari Jamaica ; Speech speechifying preaching Rastafari Jamaica ; Hair treatment of dreadlocks Rastafari Jamaica ; Millenarian movements ideology of Rastafari Jamaica ; Bible as ideology Rastafari Jamaica ; Ritual marijuana used in Rastafari ; Instruments musical instruments