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Category - Non Fiction / Religion
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - A month ago
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Ships From - Florida
Est. Publication Date - Nov 2012
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“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.” Paperback nonfiction with minimal highlighting. Tabs will be removed before shipping.
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Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011
ISBN: 9789766403157
Publisher Description
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. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essenti...
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