Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews / edited by Barry Chevannes.

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Publication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; The Hague : in association with the Institute of Social Studies, 1995.Description: xxv, 282 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0333616944
9780333616949
ISBN 0-333-61694-4

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Genre/Form:

Conference papers and proceedings.

DDC classification:

299.67 Ja Ras

Contents:

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.

Summary: "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

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	299.67 Ja Ras (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000019481
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	299.67 Ja Ras (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000118492
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	299.67 Ja Ras (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000111209
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	299.67 Ja Ras (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	1000000102272
Books	OCLC Data		299.67 Ja Ras (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	0000000007720

A selection of papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Sept. 24-25, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-271) and index.

"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.

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