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Verfasst von:Hucks, Tracey E. [VerfasserIn]   i
Titel:Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad
Titelzusatz:Africans in the white colonial imagination : Volume I, Obeah
Verf.angabe:Tracey E. Hucks
Verlagsort:Durham
Verlag:Duke University Press
Jahr:2022
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 262 pages)
Illustrationen:illustrations, maps
Gesamttitel/Reihe:Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people
Fussnoten:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:978-1-4780-2214-5
 1-4780-2214-0
 978-1-4780-9278-0
 1-4780-9278-5
Abstract:"Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume I, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of "Obeah." A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifying African witchcraft. These preoccupations revealed the fears that bound whites to one another. At the same time, persons accused of obeah sought legal vindication and marshaled their own spiritual and medicinal technologies to fortify the cultural heritages, religious identities, and life systems of African-diasporic communities in Trinidad."--
URL:kostenfrei: Verlag: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2775911
Datenträger:Online-Ressource
Sprache:eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Hucks, Tracey E., 1965-: Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad. Volume I, Obeah. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2022
Sach-SW:Black people - Religion
 Cults - Law and legislation
 Obeah (Cult)
 Postcolonialism
 Religion and law
 Religion and sociology
 Religions - African influences
 RELIGION / General
 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
 History
Geograph. SW:Trinidad and Tobago - Trinidad
K10plus-PPN:1848554281
 
 
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