Rastafari : roots and ideology / Barry Chevannes.

By:

Chevannes, Barry

Series: Utopianism and communitarianism | Utopianism and communitarianismAnalytics: Show analyticsPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1994.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiv, 298 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

081562638X
9780815626381
0815602960
9780815602965

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Additional physical formats: Rastafari.DDC classification:

299/.67 20

LOC classification:

BL2532.R37 C47 1994

Other classification:

11.98
15.88
71.38
89.62
LC 30640

Online resources:

Contents:

The spirit of resistance -- The uprooting -- The enlightenment -- Early leaders and organizations -- Enter the dreadlocks -- The Bobo Dread -- The era of the dreadlocks -- Word, sound, and power -- Repatriation and divination -- Rastafari and the wider world.

Summary: Traces the cultural development of the Rastafari movement from the slave trade in the sixteenth century, when it developed as a resistance reaction.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.

Traces the cultural development of the Rastafari movement from the slave trade in the sixteenth century, when it developed as a resistance reaction.

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