Maarit Forde

Biographic Data

ID192437
NAMEMaarit Forde
GIVEN NAMESMaarit
FAMILY NAMEForde
SIGNATUREFORDE M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0001-6266-7829
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The Rule of Dons: Criminal Leaders and Political Authority in Urban Jamaica

    Maarit FordeARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2026

  • Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I. Obeah: Africans in the White Colonial Imagination

    Maarit FordeARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2023

  • The Spiritual Baptist Religion

    Maarit FordeARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2019Cited by: 1

    (2019). The Spiritual Baptist Religion. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 65, African-Caribbean Spirituality and Creativity, pp. 212-240

  • Passages and Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean

    Maarit Forde, Yanique HumeBOOKPassages and Afterworlds2018

  • Passages & afterworlds: Anthropological perspectives on death in the Caribbean

    Maarit Forde, Yanique HumeBOOKPassages & afterworlds2018

    The contributors to this book explore death and its rituals across the Caribbean, drawing on ethnographic theories shaped by a deep understanding of the region's long history of violent encounters, exploitation, and cultural diversity. Examining the relationship between living bodies and the spirits of the dead, the contributors investigate the changes in cosmologies and rituals in the cultural sphere of death in relation to political development…

  • Fear, Segregation, and Civic Engagement in Urban Trinidad

    Open AccessMaarit FordeARTICLEThe Journal of Latin American and…2018Cited by: 2References: 23

    Este ensayo investiga una economía espacial de segregación y confinamiento que da forma al compromiso cívico de los pobres urbanos que también perpetúa las jerarquías raciales y de clase. Basado en un estudio etnográfico de un barrio empobrecido de Puerto España, el ensayo explora la morale colonial y neoliberal que perpetúa la segregación de clases en la Trinidad y Tobago contemporánea. La economía espacial resultante de confinamiento restringe …

  • The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago

    Open AccessMaarit FordeCHAPTERObeah and Other Powers2012

  • Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing

    Open AccessDiana Paton, Maarit FordeBOOKObeah and Other Powers2012Cited by: 18

    Powers of Representation 1. An (Un)natural Mystic in the Air: Images of Obeah in Caribbean Song / Kenneth Bilby 45 2. Eh! eh! Bomba, hen! hen!: Making Sense of a Vodou Chant / Alasdair Pettinger 80 3. On Swelling: Slavery, Social Science, and Medicine in the Nineteenth Century / Alejandra Bronfman 103 4. Atis Rezistans: Gede and the Art of Vagabondaj / Katherine Smith 121 Part II. Modernity and Tradition in the Making 5. Slave Poison / Slave Medi…

  • Book and Film Reviews

    Open AccessKeith J Egan, Matias Thaler et al.ARTICLEReligion and Society2010

    BENTLEY, Alex (ed.), The Edge of Reason? Science and Religion in Modern Society, 222 pp., foreword. London: Continuum, 2008. Paperback, £13.99. ISBN: 9781847062185. BERGER, Peter, Grace DAVIE, and Effi e FOKAS, Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations, 176 pp., bibliography, index. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Paperback, £16.99. ISBN: 978075466011. LEVEY, Geoffrey Brahm and Tariq MODOOD (eds.), Secularism, Religion and Multicultural…