Obeah and other powers : the politics of Caribbean religion and healing /
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- An (un)natural mystic in the air : images of Obeah in Caribbean song / Kenneth Bilby
- "Eh! Eh! Bomba, hen! Hen!" : making sense of a vodou chant / Alasdair Pettinger
- On swelling : remedies and rituals in colonial medicine / Alejandra Bronfman
- Atis Rezistans : Gede and the art of vagabondaj / Katherine Smith
- Slave poison/slave medicine : the persistence of Obeah in early 19th century Martinique / John Savage
- The Trials of Inspector Thomas : policing and ethnography in Jamaica / Diana Paton
- The moral economy of spiritual work : money and rituals in Trinidad and Tobago / Maarit Forde
- The open secrets of Solares / Elizabeth Cooper
- Rites of power and rumours of race : the circulation of supernatural knowledge and sacrifice tales in the greater Caribbean, 1890-1940 / Lara Putnam
- The vodou state and the Protestant nation : Haiti in the long twentieth century / Karen E. Richman
- The moral economy of brujería under the modern colony : a pirated modernity? / Raquel Romberg
- Afterword: Other powers : Tylor's principle, Father Williams' temptations, and the power of banality / Stephan Palmié.