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The Cultural Politics of Obeah

Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World

by Diana Paton

A history of the laws against obeah in the British Caribbean, showing how colonial governments used the prosecution of Afro-Caribbean ritual practice to police people and define respectability.

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