{"product_id":"obeah-and-other-powers-the-politics-of-caribbean-religion-and-healing-paperback","title":"Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiana Paton\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eObeah and Other Powers\u003c\/i\u003e, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions-such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería-have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed. The \"other powers\" of the book's title have helped to shape, or attempted to curtail, Caribbean religions and healing practices. These powers include those of capital and colonialism; of states that criminalize some practices and legitimize others; of occupying armies that rewrite constitutions and reorient economies; of writers, filmmakers, and scholars who represent Caribbean practices both to those with little knowledge of the region and to those who live there; and, not least, of the millions of people in the Caribbean whose relationships with one another, as well as with capital and the state, have long been mediated and experienced through religious formations and discourses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e. Kenneth Bilby, Erna Brodber, Alejandra Bronfman, Elizabeth Cooper, Maarit Forde, Stephan Palmié, Diana Paton, Alasdair Pettinger, Lara Putnam, Karen Richman, Raquel Romberg, John Savage, Katherine Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiana Paton is a Reader in Caribbean history at Newcastle University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eNo Bond but the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eA Narrative of Events, since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Pamela Scully, \u003ci\u003eGender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e, all also published by Duke University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaarit Forde is a Lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 376\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.17 x 6.17 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 13, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53247476924723,"sku":"9780822351337","price":71.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/2Ok5roXe_59780822351337.webp?v=1776304784","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/obeah-and-other-powers-the-politics-of-caribbean-religion-and-healing-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}