Obeah, Orisa, and religious identity in Trinidad. : Africans in the white colonial imagination / / Volume I, : Obeah : / Tracey E. Hucks.
"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 the...
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| Superior document: | Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- The formation of a slave colony: race, nation, and identity
- Obeah trials and social cannibalism in Trinidad's early slave
- society
- Obeah, piety, and poison in the slave son: representations of African religions in Trinidadian colonial literature
- Marked in the genuine African way: liberated Africans and Obeah doctoring in post-slavery Trinidad
- C'est vrai
- It is true.