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...Keith E. McNeal Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing . Edited by Paton Diana and Forde Maarit . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2012 . Illustrations. Notes. Index. xi, 354 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press...

...Fernando Ortíz Voodoos and Obeahs. Phases of West India Witchcraft . By Williams Joseph J. S. J. ( New York : Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press , 1933 . Pp. xix , 257 . $3.00 .) Copyright 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 ...

... priests and priestesses. Elaine Savory looks at the work of Jean Rhys as a fascinating example of the multiple layers of insider/outsider identities possible in the Caribbean. Savory sees in Rhys’s portrayal of bound and released characters a project similar to the Obeah that permeates her fiction...

... of subjects—e.g. no clear distinction between religion, obeah and institutions; the multi-goals of the study, resulting in no clear-cut reaching of any of them. Five “culture groups” are distinguished in the Virgin Islands: 1. “native” (U.S.) Virgin Islanders—mostly descendents of Negro slaves; 2. British...

... files and presents the slave family both as a source of resilience and as a result of power struggles. Chapter 5, on the Obeah religious practice, shows a slave driver as an Obeah leader seeking to “bring things on the estate to order” for his community and thus seeking collective survival (p. 135...

... by obeah workers or other religious leaders” (p. 138), rather than lending freshness to the text, sound condescending, as well as being anachronistic. Moreover, for a compilation seeking “the oldest documents,” the choice of selections seems unusual: more than 80 percent of the extracts date from...

... study (including the waltzes and quadrilles danced). Another phenomenon strengthening this hypothesis is the virtual absence of certain “African” beliefs (e.g., the navel string as an object of obeah and the attitude towards twins) which the author observes (p. 64). ...

... and with employers and wealthy landowners. At the same time, they used a variety of unofficial systems of justice, often through independent Baptist congregations or African-Jamaican rituals of myal and obeah , to reach compromises or to exact retribution in community disputes. Paton’s study is impressive...

... doctors. Yet, as she rightly points out, there were obstacles to the transfer of knowledge: the decimation of the Amerindian population, the diversity of cultural-linguistic groups from which slaves were drawn, and fear and prejudice of practices, such as Obeah, that remained secret to Africans all...

..., 108 Forced Marches: Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico, edited by Ben Fallaw and Terry Rugeley, 514 Forde, Maarit, and Diana Paton, eds., Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing, 691 Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American...