Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews / 
edited by Barry Chevannes. 
 - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :  The Hague :  Macmillan ;  in association with the Institute of Social Studies,  1995. 
 - xxv, 282 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> A selection of papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Sept. 24-25, 1989. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index. 
<br/><br/>1. Introducing the native religions of Jamaica / Barry Chevannes -- 2. New approach to Rastafari / Barry Chevannes -- 3. Religion as resistance in Jamaican peasant life : the Baptist Church, revival worldview and Rastafari movement / Jean Besson -- 4. The origin of the dreadlocks / Barry Chevannes -- 5. The phallus and the outcast : the symbolism of the dreadlocks in Jamaica / Barry Chevannes -- 6. Dub history : soundings on Rastafari livity and language / John P. Homiak -- 7. The de-labelling process : from 'lost tribe' to 'ethnic group' / Ellis Cashmore -- 8. African-American worldviews in the Caribbean / H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen -- 9. Demons in a garbage chute : Surinamese Creole women's discourse on possession and therapy / Wilhelmina van Wetering -- 10. History, memory and appropriation : some problems in the analysis of origins / Roland Littlewood -- 11. Afterword / Barry Chevannes. 
<br/><br/> "Recommended collection includes selections by editor on native religions of Jamaica, a new approach to Rastafari, and the origin and symbolism of dreadlocks. Also includes articles by: Jean Besson on religion as resistance in Jamaica; by John Homiak on dub history (use of oral testimony by Rastafarians in their ritual discourse); Ellis Cashmore on the Rastafarian de-labeling process; H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen on African-American worldviews in the Caribbean; Wilhelmina van Wetering on Surinamese creole women's discourse on possession and therapy; and Roland Littlewood on problems in the analysis of origins"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.  http://www.loc.gov/hlas 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0333616944 9780333616949 ISBN 0-333-61694-4 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95120736  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rastafari movement--Congresses.<br/>Afro-Caribbean cults--Congresses.<br/>Afro-Caribbean cults.<br/>Rastafari movement.<br/>Rastafari-beweging.<br/>Noirs--Religion.--Antilles<br/>Mouvement rastafari.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Antilles--Religion.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Rastafarians 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Conference papers and proceedings.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>299.67 Ja Ras