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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Diana Paton This article asks why negative stereotypes of obeah have proved so persistent, seeking the answer in a detailed examination of changing colonial constructions of obeah. It compares the history of anti-obeah laws with that of the Shakerism Prohibition Ordinance in St. Vincent...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 17–32.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Marie Meudec The purpose of this essay is to understand the language of spiritual work and healing in St. Lucia as well as the moral impregnation of the term obeah . This ethnographic study of ordinary ethics of obeah explores the significant gap between the designation and auto-legitimation...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 2024
... are made with several materials, all with a great spiritual meaning. They include but are not limited to blood, feathers, animal teeth, eggshells, and, most important for our discussion here, soil taken from graves. 40 Grave dirt is always listed as one of the key implements of obeah practice...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 61–79.
Published: 01 June 2006
...,
but is finally healed by “the sibyl, the obeah woman” Ma Kilman (245), owner of the aptly
named “No Pain Caf Crucially, Walcott refuses to begin his poem echoing Homer but
relegates his “revisitation” of the Iliad’s opening lines to the end of Omeros (320). Chapter
LXIV of Omeros opens...
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Barrack Yard Politics: From C. L. R. James’s The Case for West-Indian Self Government to Minty Alley
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 13–27.
Published: 01 November 2018
...” (239). Though Mrs. Rouse and Philomen had occasionally quarreled, Philomen had done her duty. 50 It is then that Mrs. Rouse reveals that she followed the advice of an “obeah man.” In answering the question, however, she dwells on her relationship with Benoit: “You see, Mr. Haynes, I have someone who...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 42–55.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of the Jamaican landscape as an exoticized idyll and the representation of Jamaicans as Rasta and/or gangsters. Tied to these images are the depictions of Jamaicans as obeah workers and believers. Small Axe, Inc. 2010 Through the Eyes of Hollywood:
Reading Representations of
Jamaicans in American Cinema...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 72–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... novel, is a fictional attempt to imagine the real historical phenomenon of
myal—an Afro-Christian post-slavery practice that worked to counter and realign Jamaican
society from the negative effects of colonialism and obeah. Her third novel, Louisiana (1994),
heralded as a postmodern text par...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 83–88.
Published: 01 March 2024
...-López, “Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico,” Small Axe , no. 62 (July 2020): 124. 7 On Ifá and Pan-African circulations, see N. Fadeke Castor, Spiritual Citizenship: Transnational Pathways from Black Power to Ifá in Trinidad (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017); on obeah, see...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 September 2002
... at the level of nation and community are marked symbolically on
the bodies of two women. Anita is the victim of obeah, because Mass Levi uses a “dolly
ssmallmall baby” stuck with a nail to steal her spirit and boost his waning potency. Ella, a “half
aaxexe
black, half white” woman...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 191–204.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., “You Can’t Do Wrong and Get By,” 1929, Discography of American Historical Recordings , adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/202927 . 38 Perhaps the anecdotal yet increasingly consistent media reporting of scammer participation in obeah over the past few years might be another example. However, I found...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 29–49.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in religious traditions, typically parsed as Afro-Atlantic religious traditions like Vodou, or as South Asian-derived religious traditions like Mariamman, or the broadly all-inclusive, mediated supernatural powers called obeah. Understood by analysts and many practitioners to be the consequences...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 151–161.
Published: 01 July 2017
....” Corbeau of touch, alighting in the corner. “I see a man touching you when you are small.” Settle the sad inside, crooked pot cover. Stop that internal mewling . She hears you . Yes, I will clean this love obeah off of myself. For three days, my limbs were slow to stir from the Kananga water...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
Published: 01 November 2012
...-Olmos and Lizabeth
Paravisini-Gebert, eds., Sacred Possessions: Vodou, Santería, Obeah, and the Caribbean (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1997), 3.
16 Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 141–147.
Published: 01 July 2014
... softly; and how you use to do people mal , and how you use to bury obeah neat-neat-neat underneath our feet, and how you use to talk to the Devil, and how you does wear black quarter moons of dirt under your fingernails, and how respectable men does linger at your door like black cats in the night...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 230–233.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., with Pamela Scully, of Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
(2005). Her current work concerns the social and political history of obeah.
Ingrid Pollard is an artist trained in photography, film and video, and mixed media. She
has been concerned with social...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 205–208.
Published: 01 March 2022
...: The Other Worlds of Slavery,” which traces the “other worlds” enslaved people created, having been unworlded by the conditions of their enslavement. It explores four modes of departure from within the plantation complex—haunting, madness, obeah, and music. M arta F ernández C ampa is a literary...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 March 2002
... the privileging of the supersensible in
Afro-Caribbean ethno-philosophy, having done extensive work on Myal, Obeah, and
De Laurence. Her novel Louisiana celebrates the magical, spiritual and religious dimen-
5. Foucault, quoted in Michael Echeruo, “An African Diaspora: < e Ontological Project,” e...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 35–56.
Published: 01 July 2018
... of a still-life photograph focused around a picture or portrait of an ancestor. In the veneration of the past and of those who have come before us, I am African and I am Chinese.” 24 Though Chong was raised Catholic, obeah rituals were also an important part of his upbringing and are an important part...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 37–54.
Published: 01 March 2015
... that South Africa functions as a lens through which Williams envisioned black utopia as a product of the anglophone Caribbean. The state of black South Africa is central to a Caribbean future. But “Vampire Bat” usurps Bellon's control of the narrative, ceding it to the local obeah expert and therein...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 87–104.
Published: 01 October 2006
...-born wives as not “English enough”
since Henderson considers Christiana’s familiarity with obeah and her Creole birth as major
obstacles that prevent him from loving her. Likewise, Rochester is wary of Antoinette’s hybrid
cultural status as a Martinican Creole, of her Catholic schooling...
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