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The deepest dye : obeah, Hosay, and race in the Atlantic world /

Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies, the "African" supernatural practice of obeah and the "Indian" mourning festival of Hosay. The British criminalized both, establishing hierarchies through racial and religious identities still rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Khan, Aisha, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Obeah (Cult)
Tenth of Muḥarram.
Postcolonialism > West Indies.
Identification (Religion)
West Indies > Race relations.
West Indies > Civilization > European influences.
West Indies > Religious life and customs.
Great Britain > Colonies > America.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

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