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001 2011036577
003 DLC
005 20121116081824.0
008 110916s2012 ncu b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780822351245 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780822351337 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBL2565$b.O24 2012
082 00 $a299.609729$223
245 00 $aObeah and other powers :$bthe politics of Caribbean religion and healing /$cDiana Paton and Maarit Forde, editors.
260 $aDurham, NC :$bDuke University Press,$c2012.
300 $axii, 353 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAn (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.
650 0 $aObeah (Cult)$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aVodou$zCaribbean Area.
650 0 $aReligion and politics$zCaribbean Area.
651 0 $aCaribbean Area$xReligion.
700 1 $aPaton, Diana,$d1969-
700 1 $aForde, Maarit,$d1973-