Enacting Power

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Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, the core of this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws and their socio-political implications in 17 jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present.

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Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, the core of Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean 1760-2011 is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws and their socio-political implications in 17 jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present.

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  • By Jerome S. Handler and Kenneth M. Bilby
  • 172 pages
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  • Language: English
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