Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Duke University Press, North Carolina, 2022

1478014857 / 9781478014850

Series: Book 15 of 25 - Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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Paperback. 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 these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume I, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of "obeah." A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifying African witchcraft. These preoccupations revealed the fears that bound whites to one another. At the same time, persons accused of obeah sought legal vindication and marshaled their own spiritual and medicinal technologies to fortify the cultural heritages, religious identities, and life systems of African-diasporic communities in Trinidad. Tracey E. Hucks traces the history of the repression of Obeah practitioners in colonial Trinidad. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah (Paperback)
Author
Tracey E. Hucks
Publisher
Duke University Press, North Carolina
Publication year
2022
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new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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1478014857
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9781478014850
Series
Book 15 of 25: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People

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