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

by Diana Paton and Maarit Forde

Book Overview

In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and Santer a-have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822351331
• ISBN13: 9780822351337
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"