Obeah and other powers
Subtitle: the politics of Caribbean religion and healing
By: Diana Paton and Maarit Forde, editors
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780822351245; 9780822351337
Subjects: Religion; Voodooism; Obeah (Cult); Religion and politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An (un)natural mystic in the air : images of Obeah in Caribbean song / Kenneth Bilby; title: "Eh! Eh! Bomba, hen! Hen!" : making sense of a vodou chant / Alasdair Pettinger; title: On swelling : remedies and rituals in colonial medicine / Alejandra Bronfman; title: Atis Rezistans : Gede and the art of vagabondaj / Katherine Smith; title: Slave poison/slave medicine : the persistence of Obeah in early 19th century Martinique / John Savage; title: The Trials of Inspector Thomas : policing and ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton; title: The moral economy of spiritual work : money and rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde; title: The open secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper; title: Rites of power and rumours of race : the circulation of supernatural knowledge and sacrifice tales in the greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam; title: The vodou state and the Protestant nation : Haiti in the long twentieth century / Karen E. Richman; title: The moral economy of brujería under the modern colony : a pirated modernity? / Raquel Romberg; title: Afterword: Other powers : Tylor's principle, Father Williams' temptations, and the power of banality / Stephan Palmié.