Enacting Power The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011 |
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| Author:
| Handler, Jerome S.
Bilby, Kenneth M. |
| ISBN: | 978-976-640-315-7 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of the West Indies Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, this is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present.
More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, this is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present.