Obeah: Witchcraft In The West Indies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Obeah: Witchcraft In The West Indies write by Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell. This book was released on 2022-10-26. Obeah: Witchcraft In The West Indies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Obeah and Other Powers
Obeah and Other Powers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Obeah and Other Powers write by Diana Paton. This book was released on 2012-04-13. Obeah and Other Powers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.
Obeah, Race and Racism
Obeah, Race and Racism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Obeah, Race and Racism write by Eugenia O'Neal. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Obeah, Race and Racism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. The triangular trade in guns and baubles, enslaved Africans and gold, sugar and cotton was mirrored by a similar intellectual trade borne in the reports, accounts and stories that fed the perceptions and prejudices of everyone involved in the slave trade and no subject was more fascinating and disconcerting to Europeans than the religious beliefs of the people they had enslaved. Indeed, African magic made its own triangular voyage; starting from Africa, Obeah crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, then journeyed back across the ocean, in the form of traveller's narratives and plantation reports, to Great Britain where it was incorporated into the plots of scores of books and stories which went on to shape and form the world view of explorers and colonial officials in Britain's far-flung empire. O'Neal examines what British writers knew or thought they knew about Obeah and discusses how their perceptions of black people were shaped by their perceptions of Obeah. Translated or interpreted by racist writers as a devil-worshipping religion, Obeah came to symbolize the brutality, savagery and superstition in which blacks were thought to be immured by their very race. For many writers, black belief in Obeah proved black inferiority and justified both slavery and white colonial domination. The English reading public became generally convinced that Obeah was evil and that blacks were, at worst, devil worshippers or, at best, extremely stupid and credulous. And because books and stories on Obeah continued to promulgate either of the two prevailing perspectives, and sometimes both together until at least the 1950s, theories of black inferiority continue to hold sway in Great Britain today.
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
The Cultural Politics of Obeah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cultural Politics of Obeah write by Diana Paton. This book was released on 2015-08-10. The Cultural Politics of Obeah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
The Obeah Bible
The Obeah Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Obeah Bible write by L. W. De Laurence. This book was released on 2014-01. The Obeah Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
