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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2009
... production of the crime of obeah discursively isolated those aspects of Caribbean spiritual practice that match terms defined as antonyms of or precursors to religion—“magic,” “superstition,” “witchcraft,” separating these aspects from others that conform more easily to an idea of “religion.” This colonial...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Jorge L. Giovannetti Small Axe Incorporated 2006 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Elusive Organization of “Identity”:
Race, Religion, and Empire
Among Caribbean Migrants in Cuba
Jorge L...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 169–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
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religions” and their Caribbean off shoots, including African-Christian religions such as
Revival and Zion in Jamaica, and the Shouter and Spiritual Baptist religions in the East-
ern Caribbean and Guyana. ? is access to knowledge through trances underlies notions
of spiritual...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 47–60.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the transnational impact and legacy of Rastafari, raising crucial questions about the constitution of postcolonial archives and the place of Caribbean religion in the intellectual history of the region. Margo Groenewoud gives a welcome and considered perspective on the neglect of the Dutch Caribbean in Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 208–219.
Published: 01 March 2019
... as well as revolutionary times. Where Ferrer has presented a remarkable model for taking this approach in the Age of Revolution, Kristen Block’s Ordinary Lives in the Early Caribbean: Religion, Colonial Competition, and the Politics of Profit offers one model for taking this interconnected...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 17–32.
Published: 01 March 2017
...); Manfred Kremser, “Visiting Ancestors: St-Lucian Djine in Communion with Their African Kin,” Caribbean Quarterly 39, nos. 3–4 (1993): 82–99. 20 Paravisini-Gebert and Fernández Olmos, Creole Religions . 19 Jane C. Beck, “The Implied Obeah Man,” Western Folklore 35, no.1 (1976): 23–33...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... spiritual grounding, despite the fetishization of faithlessness in queer life. Copyright © 2018 Small Axe, Inc. 2016 Spiritual Baptist queer Caribbean religion Calypso Rose By now, same-sex desirous and gender nonconforming devotees are a gloriously unavoidable presence even in the most...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (1 (64)): 116–131.
Published: 01 March 2021
... history Caribbean religion Ras Bupe Karudi Tanzania In August 1986, a Rastaman roamed the streets of Kingston encouraging other Rastafari to leave Jamaica permanently. In particular, he searched for Rastafari elders who shared both his intellectual commitments and his deep desire to repatriate...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 179–190.
Published: 01 June 2008
... prodding questions about
its claims and stances. Bogues expresses concern about the omission of Afro-Caribbean and
Indo-Caribbean religion in the book’s narrative of thought production in the region. The
concern stems from the realization of our need to account for the site of ideas and action...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 158–168.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and
colonialism, was eclipsed as a conscious discipline, though it survives in Afro-Caribbean
religion and in contemporary Afro-Caribbean literature. Two proposals follow: First,
that we should move beyond the prejudicial blinders that prevent us from appreciating
the rich heritage, in order...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of Caribbean Religion and Healing (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 262. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 culture concept embodiment Diasporas tell innumerable stories. The people, products, and processes of diasporas are so vast that they can be delineated and interpreted in as many ways...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 59–76.
Published: 01 March 2002
... fi ction as a crucial formal and thematic
paradigm that owes its expressive and interpretive designs to the widespread vernacu-
lar mode of spirit possession in Afro-Caribbean religions. Lamming uses this trope to
structure Fola’s quest for identity in Season of Adventure; in Water with Berries...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 36–49.
Published: 01 July 2021
...., Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012), 289. 37 See Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern , trans. Catherine Porter (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993). 38 See Stephan Palmié, “From Enchantment by Science...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 95–107.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Pablo F. Gómez This essay offers the Spanish Caribbean as a showcase for the central role black Atlantic healers and their culture played in shaping the Atlantic world of knowledge production about the body and the natural world during the seventeenth century. The author examines how...
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Small Axe (2005) 9 (2): 124–149.
Published: 01 September 2005
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and African religions brought to the Caribbean were pagan, uncivilized, and barbaric.
10. Th is is not true of dance and music, which were initially recognized by dancer Katherine Dunham and
extensively discussed in her Danses d’Haitii and Island Possessed.
11. From the introduction to the 1975...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 134–146.
Published: 01 November 2021
... fieldwork in Garifuna communities on the Caribbean coast of Honduras and in New York City, Johnson’s ethnography shows how Garifuna diasporas make Garifuna religious practices. Borrowing from Thomas Tweed, Johnson lays out a theory of “diasporic religion[s]” whose members view themselves against new...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (2): 200–209.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Aisha Khan In this essay I explore key tropes in the study of the Caribbean and New World African diasporas, focusing on the work of Richard Price, and, in particular, Travels With Tooy. I engage some problematic issues in the definition and apprehension of memory, history, and cultural...
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Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 168–178.
Published: 01 June 2008
... is crucial in Afro-Caribbean thought (“It is the beginning of the
poetry of the New World. And the language used, is like the religion, that of the conqueror
of the God. But the slave had wrested God from his captor.”20), then for us to think about
and inside a Caribbean intellectual tradition without...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 179–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... leads. At the same
time, these philosophical orientations were profoundly indigenized by their complex
feedback relations with Afro-Caribbean philosophical demand.
Further, within the Africana philosophical world, the relationship between religion
and philosophy...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 244–246.
Published: 01 November 2013
... Götter: Geschichte und Vorstellungswelt einer afrokubanischen Religion (1991), Wizards and Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity and Tradition (2002), and The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (2013), as well as the editor of several volumes on Caribbean and Afro...
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