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03499aam a2200373Ia 4500 001 06F6527AE2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130702010114 008 130111s2012 jm ab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9766403155 (pbk.) 020 $a 9789766403157 (pbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)823931181 040 $a VA@ $c VA@ $d YHM $d TKF $d TJC $d MUU $d NhCcYBP $d SILO 043 $a nw----- 050 4 $a BL2532.O23 $b H36 2012 082 04 $a 299.609729 $2 23 100 1 $a Handler, Jerome S. 245 10 $a Enacting power : $b the criminalization of Obeah in the anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011 / $c Jerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby. 246 30 $a Criminalization of Obeah in the anglophone Caribean 1760-2011 260 $a Kingston, Jamaica : $b University of the West Indies Press, $c c2012. 300 $a xiii, 172 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 23 cm. 520 $a "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 West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection from harm, and solving a wide range of everyday problems - positive views that were also commonly held by enslaved West Indians in earlier generations. Despite the scholarly attention obeah has received, relatively little has been written about the many laws enacted against it in different territories at different periods. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, the core of this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present. Aside from chronologically tracing in each territory the development of these laws and their major provisions, the book also examines how anti-obeah legislation has helped to create and perpetuate cultural distortions that resound into the present. Anti-obeah legislation, particularly after the end of slavery in the nineteenth century, played a central role in creating public misunderstandings of the meaning and role of obeah among the West Indian masses, and led to the stigmatization and devaluation among future generation of African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices."--P. [4] of cover. 505 0 $a Divining and defining obeah -- Anti-obeah provisions in the laws : a comparative overview -- Images of obeah : practitioners at work in Suriname, Trinidad, and Jamaica -- Patterns in governance and vagrancy laws : framing the development of anti-obeah legislation -- The territories and their laws. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-165) and index. 650 0 $a Obeah (Cult) $z West Indies, British $x History. 650 0 $a Cults $x History. $z West Indies, British $x History. 650 0 $a Religion and law $z West Indies, British $x History. 650 0 $a Blacks $z West Indies, British $x History. $x History. 700 1 $a Bilby, Kenneth M., $d 1953- 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018015709.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091331.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20140411012622.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06F6527AE2DD11E284C630D7DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search