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Paperback Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011 Book

ISBN: 9766403155

ISBN13: 9789766403157

Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011

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 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...

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