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Duke University Press
Language
English
Pages
354

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Subjects

Religion, Voodooism, Obeah (Cult), Religion and politics, Vodou, Afroamerikanischer Synkretismus, Ritus, Religionsausübung, Wodu, Cults, Caribbean area, religion

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Caribbean Area
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Table of Contents

An (un)natural mystic in the air : images of Obeah in Caribbean song / Kenneth Bilby
"Eh! Eh! Bomba, hen! Hen!" : making sense of a vodou chant / Alasdair Pettinger
On swelling : remedies and rituals in colonial medicine / Alejandra Bronfman
Atis Rezistans : Gede and the art of vagabondaj / Katherine Smith
Slave poison/slave medicine : the persistence of Obeah in early 19th century Martinique / John Savage
The Trials of Inspector Thomas : policing and ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton
The moral economy of spiritual work : money and rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde
The open secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper
Rites of power and rumours of race : the circulation of supernatural knowledge and sacrifice tales in the greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam
The vodou state and the Protestant nation : Haiti in the long twentieth century / Karen E. Richman
The moral economy of brujería under the modern colony : a pirated modernity? / Raquel Romberg
Afterword: Other powers : Tylor's principle, Father Williams' temptations, and the power of banality / Stephan Palmié.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Durham, NC

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
299.609729
Library of Congress
BL2565 .O24 2012, BL2565.O24 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
354

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OL25046395M
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ISBN 13
9780822351245, 9780822351337
LCCN
2011036577
OCLC/WorldCat
748336601
Wikidata
Q57234232

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