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050 00 $aKGL5580$b.H36 2012
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100 1 $aHandler, Jerome S.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aEnacting power :$bthe criminalization of obeah in the anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011 /$cJerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby.
246 30 $aCriminalization of obeah in the anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
264 1 $aKingston, Jamaica :$bUniversity of the West Indies Press,$c2012.
300 $axiii, 172 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 135-165) and index.
505 00 $tDivining and defining obeah --$tAnti-obeah provisions in the laws : a comparative overview --$tImages of obeah : practitioners at work in Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica --$tPatterns in governance and vagrancy laws : framing the development of anti-obeah legislation --$gThe territories and their laws.$tJamaica --$tBarbados --$tTrinidad and Tobago --$tBritish Guiana/Guyana --$tThe Bahamas --$tLeeward Islands Federation --$tAntigua and Barbuda --$tAnguilla --$tSt. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Nevis --$tBritish Virgin Islands --$tMontserrat --$tDominica --$tGrenada --$tSt. Lucia --$tSt. Vincent and the Grenadines --$tBritish Honduras/Belize --$tTurks and Caicos --$tCayman Islands.
520 $a"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. Opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection from harm, and solving a wide range of everyday problems--positive views that were also commonly held by enslaved West Indians in earlier generations. Despite the scholarly attention obeah has received, relatively little has been written about the many laws enacted against it in different territories at different periods. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, the core of this book 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. Aside from chronologically tracing in each territory the development of these laws and their major provisions, the book also examines how anti-obeah legislation has helped to create and perpetuate cultural distortions that resound into the present. Anti-obeah legislation, particularly after the end of slavery in the nineteenth century, played a central role in creating public misunderstandings of the meaning and role of obeah among the West Indian masses, and led to the stigmatization and devaluation among future generations of African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices"--Back cover.
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650 7 $aBlacks$xReligion.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00833993
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650 7 $aObeah (Cult)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01042705
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651 7 $aWest Indies$zBritish West Indies.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01243266
700 1 $aBilby, Kenneth M.,$d1953-$eauthor.
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