Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews
By: edited by Barry Chevannes.
Contributors: Chevannes, Barry.; Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands).
Publisher: Macmillan; In association with the Institute of Social Studies
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; The Hague
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Rastafari movement -- Congresses.; Afro-Caribbean cults -- Congresses.
Description: "Recommended collection includes selections by editor on native religions of Jamaica, a new approach to Rastafari, and the origin and symbolism of dreadlocks. Also includes articles by: Jean Besson on religion as resistance in Jamaica; by John Homiak on dub history (use of oral testimony by Rastafarians in their ritual discourse); Ellis Cashmore on the Rastafarian de-labeling process; H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen on African-American worldviews in the Caribbean; Wilhelmina van Wetering on Surinamese creole women's discourse on possession and therapy; and Roland Littlewood on problems in the analysis of origins"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.
A selection of papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Sept. 24-25, 1989.