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. Opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Handler, Jerome S.
Other Authors: Bilby, Kenneth M., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2012.
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Call Number: BL2532.O23 H36 2012
 
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