Obeah and Other Powers
The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5834029 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Diana Paton, Maarit Forde (0000-0001-6266-7829) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages | 376 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Obeah and Other Powers (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/9780822394839 |
| OpenAlex | W378638026 |
| Open Library | OL29653693M |
| ISBN | 9780822394839 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
Foreword / Erna Brodber ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction / Maarit Forde and Diana Paton 1 Part I. 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 Medicine: The Persistence of Obeah in Early Nineteenth-Century Martinique / John Savage 149 6. The Trials of Inspector Thomas: Policing and Ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton 172 7. The Moral Economy of Spiritual Work: Money and Rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde 198 8. The Open Secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper 220 Part III. Powers on the Move 9. Rites of Power and Rumors of Race: The Circulation of Supernatural Knowledge in the Greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam 243 10. The Vodou State and the Protestant Nation: Haiti in the Long Twentieth Century / Karen Richman 268 11. The Moral Economy of Brujeria under the Modern Colony: A Pirated Modernity? / Raquel Romberg 288 Afterword. Other Powers: Tylor's Principle, Father Williams's Temptations, and the Power of Banality / Stephan Palmie 316 Contributors 341 Index 345
Art · Art history · Literature · Modernity · Mysticism · Political science · Protestantism · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
Mirror Mausoleums, Mortuary Arts, and Haitian Religious Unexceptionalism
Death and the Construction of Social Space
“The Dead Don’t Come Back Like the Migrant Comes Back”
Afterword
Of Vital Spirit and Precarious Bodies in Amerindian Socialities
Dark Arts and Diaspora
Placemaking in the Transnational Caribbean
‘Characters … stamped upon the mind’. On the a priority of character in the Caribbean everyday
Sympathetic Graffiti in Haiti
Traditional healing practices originating in Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao
Interview
Knowing obeah
At the end of the trade
Obeah, Vagrancy, and the Boundaries of Religious Freedom
On knowing and not knowing about obeah
They call me Obea”
Ordinary Ethics of Spiritual Work and Healing in St. Lucia, or Why Not to Use the Term Obeah
Obeah and the Politics of Religion's Making and Unmaking in Colonial Trinidad
Introduction
I Got Voodoo, I Got Hoodoo
The Devil Wears Dockers
Material and Immaterial Bodies
Fear, Segregation, and Civic Engagement in Urban Trinidad
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |