PDF Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua by David Barry Gaspar in History

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In Obeah and Other Powers; 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.Contributors. 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