Enacting Power
The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, this is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present.
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ISBN/EAN | 9789766403157 |
Auteur | Jerome S. Handler |
Uitgever | Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. |
Taal | Engels |
Uitvoering | Paperback / gebrocheerd |
Pagina's | 192 |
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