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

Chevannes, Barry Institute of social studies 1995

Available at 33MQB MQB  Bibliothèque de recherche  (F 1620.5 .R3 Ras )

  • Title:
    Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews. edited by Barry Chevannes
  • Author: Chevannes, Barry;
    Institute of social studies
  • Subjects: Noirs -- Religion -- Antilles;
    Mouvement rastafari;
    Rastafari movement -- Congresses;
    Blacks -- Religion -- Congresses -- Caribbean Area;
    Antilles -- Religion;
    Caribbean Area -- Religion -- Congresses
  • Description: lccopycat
    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 (p. 257-271) and index.
    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
  • Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire The Hague : Macmillan In association with the Institute of Social Studies, 1995
  • Creation Date: 1995
  • Format: xxv, 282 p. ; 23 cm
  • Language: English
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