Hosay Trinidad : : Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora / / Frank J. Korom.
The multivocalic rite known as Hosay in the Caribbean developed out of earlier practices originating in Iraq and Iran which diffused to Trinidad by way of South Asian indentured laborers brought to the Caribbean by the British from the mid-1800s to the early decades of the twentieth century. The rit...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 31 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- A Note on Orthography
- Introduction
- 1 Orientations and Overview
- 2 Muharram Rituals in Iran:Past and Present
- 3 The Passage of Rites to South Asia
- 4 Onward to the Caribbean
- 5 Building the Tadjah, Constructing Community
- 6 Conclusion: Maintenance and Transformation via Cultural Creolization
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments