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Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Ser.: Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah : Africans in the White Colonial Imagination by Tracey E. Hucks (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478013915
ISBN-139781478013914
eBay Product ID (ePID)26057271111
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
Publication NameObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah : Africans in the White Colonial Imagination
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBlack Studies (Global), General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
AuthorTracey E. Hucks
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science
SeriesReligious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-020342
ReviewsA powerful, original contribution to this emerging literature. . . . [T]hese two volumes will be of great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions., On its own or in conjunction with its companionate volume II on Orisa, Obeah, Orisa, & Religious Identity in Trinidad is a welcome and valuable contribution to Africana religious studies, Atlantic studies, and Caribbean historiography., Obeah, Orisha, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is a groundbreaking two-volume work by Drs. Tracey Hucks and Dianne Stewart [that] offer[s] new perspectives and challenge us to see through fresh lenses., A model of rigorous scholarship that offers a thoughtful and nuanced reflection on the dynamic constructions of African religion and identity in Trinidad from the colonial period to the present.
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number1
IllustratedYes
Volume NumberVol. 1
Dewey Decimal299.67
Table Of ContentPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction to Volume I 1 1. The Formation of a Slave Colony: Race, Nation, and Identity 13 2. Let Them Hate So Long as They Fear: Obeah Trials and Social Cannibalism in Trinidad's Early Slave Society 52 3. Obeah, Piety, and Poison in The Slave Son : Representations of African Religions in Trinidadian Colonial Literature 104 4. Marked in the Genuine African Way: Liberated Africans and Obeah Doctoring in Postslavery Trinidad 141 Afterword. C'est Vrai --It Is True 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 241 Index 253
SynopsisObeah, 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.
LC Classification NumberBL2532.O23H835 2022
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