{"product_id":"obeah-and-other-powers-the-politics-of-caribbean-religion-and-healing-paperback-softback-9780822351337","title":"Obeah and Other Powers; The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822351337","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eObeah and Other Powers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDiana Paton (Edited by), Maarit Forde (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822351337\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 April 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 9 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 18.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.54 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eObeah and Other Powers\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent and welcome contribution to scholarship on Caribbean religions. Too few works explicitly address the three themes taken up in this collection, the significance of state power in shaping the environment in which Caribbean religions were practiced, the role of practitioners in shaping their religious traditions, and the role of mobility and the permeability of borders in shaping the definition and interpretation of obeah, Vodou, SanterÍa, and CandomblÉ. This last premise enables the contributors to analyze these religions in conjunction with one another and as overlapping, rather than separate, phenomena.”-\u003cb\u003eAisha Khan\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCallaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"The contributors to this outstanding collection share the refreshing ambition to historicize local knowledge and to embrace the opacity and persisting mystique of Caribbean spiritual realities-from the colonial occult to enchanted modernities.\"-\u003cb\u003eRichard Price\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTravels with Tooy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRainforest Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Each and every chapter of \u003ci\u003eObeah and Other Powers\u003c\/i\u003e is a gem in its own right, and yet this splendid collection is also much more than simply the sum of its parts. Indeed, the volume achieves an impressive level of sophistication in Caribbeanist historical anthropology and Black Atlantic religious studies, and its release - along with the publication of Jerome Handler and Kenneth Bilby’s\u003ci\u003e Enacting Power\u003c\/i\u003e - makes 2012 something of a watershed moment in the study of the dynamic and rather unruly set of spiritual beliefs and ritual practices so often glossed as obeah in Afro- Atlantic studies.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Keith E. McNeal (Hispanic American Historical Review) \u003cdiv\u003e“A clear introduction and the well-developed, carefully composed chapters redeem the book…. [T]he book offers a great deal. Smith’s chapter would be a welcome addition to a gender and women’s studies classroom. Likewise, Savage’s contribution would work well in a history of medicine course. Putnam’s essay is required reading for students interested in Atlantic history. Finally, Richman’s chapter would fit well in a religious studies course.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Karol K. Weaver (Bulletin of the History of Medicine) \u003cdiv\u003e“In bringing together such a strong group of scholars to consider the production and reproduction of Caribbean ritual, spiritual practices, Paton and Forde have made a significant contribution to advancing scholarly understanding of this important subject and indeed to Caribbean history and studies more generally.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Juanita De Barros (Journal of Colonialism \u0026amp; Colonial History) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eObeah and Other Powers\u003c\/i\u003e… is likely to stimulate much interest and debate as scholars continue the difficult task of sifting through hostile representations of Caribbean religious beliefs and practices to better understand those beliefs and practices on their own terms.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Randy M. Browne (History: Reviews of New Books)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eObeah and Other Powers\u003c\/i\u003e, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and SanterÍa-have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed. The \"other powers\" of the book's title have helped to shape, or attempted to curtail, Caribbean religions and healing practices. These powers include those of capital and colonialism; of states that criminalize some practices and legitimize others; of occupying armies that rewrite constitutions and reorient economies; of writers, filmmakers, and scholars who represent Caribbean practices both to those with little knowledge of the region and to those who live there; and, not least, of the millions of people in the Caribbean whose relationships with one another, as well as with capital and the state, have long been mediated and experienced through religious formations and discourses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Kenneth Bilby, Erna Brodber, Alejandra Bronfman, Elizabeth Cooper, Maarit Forde, Stephan PalmiÉ, Diana Paton, Alasdair Pettinger, Lara Putnam, Karen Richman, Raquel Romberg, John Savage, Katherine Smith\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword \/ Erna Brodber ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Maarit Forde and Diana Paton 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Powers of Representation \u003cbr\u003e 1. An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song \/ Kenneth Bilby 45\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"\u003cbr\u003eEh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!\"\u003cbr\u003e: Making Sense of a Vodou Chant \/ Alasdair Pettinger 80\u003cbr\u003e 3. On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century \/ Alejandra Bronfman 103\u003cbr\u003e 4. Atis Rezistans: Gede and the Art of Vagabondaj \/ Katherine Smith 121\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Modernity and Tradition in the Making \u003cbr\u003e 5. Slave Poison \/ Slave Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique \/ John Savage 149\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Trials of Inspector Thomas: Policing and Ethnography in Jamaica \/ Diana Paton 172\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago \/ Maarit Forde 198\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Open Secrets of Solares \/ Elizabeth Cooper 220\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Powers on the Move \u003cbr\u003e 9. Rites of Power and Rumors of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge in the Greater Caribbean, 1890–1940 \/ Lara Putnam 243\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century \/ Karen Richman 268\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Moral Economy of Brujería under the Modern Colony: A Pirated Modernity? \/ Raquel Romberg 288\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. Other Powers: Tylor's Principle, Father Williams's Temptations, and the Power of Banality \/ Stephan Palmíe 316\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 341\u003cbr\u003e Index 345\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52694811509016,"sku":"9780822351337","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/obeah-and-other-powers-the-politics-of-caribbean-religion-and-healing-paperback-softback-9780822351337","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}