Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews /

Rastafari and other African-Caribbean worldviews /

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Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1998.
Description:xxv, 282 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Rastafari movement -- Congresses.
Afro-Caribbean cults -- Congresses.
Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Religion.
Afro-Caribbean cults.
Rastafari movement.
Caribbean Area -- Religion.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2954162
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Varying Form of Title:Rastafari and other African Caribbean worldviews
Other authors / contributors:Chevannes, Barry.
Institute of Social Studies (Netherlands)
ISBN:0813524113 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813524121 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Papers presented at a workshop sponsored by the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, in September 1989.
Originally published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • 1. Introducing the Native Religions of Jamaica
  • Revivalism
  • Rastafari
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • 2. New Approach to Rastafari
  • The Revival Past
  • Rastafari Beliefs
  • Leadership and Organization
  • General Implications
  • Notes
  • 3. Religion as Resistance in Jamaican Peasant Life: The Baptist Church, Revival Worldview and Rastafari Movement
  • The New Approach to Rastafari
  • The Baptist Church as a Formal Symbol of Resistance
  • The Paradox of Baptist Religious Resistance
  • The Peasant Culture of Resistance
  • The Revival Worldview: African-Caribbean Cultural Resistance
  • Rastafari in the Peasant Culture of Resistance
  • The Significance of Land in the Rastafari Movement
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • 4. The Origin of the Dreadlocks
  • The Youth Black Faith Reform
  • Anti-Revivalism
  • Institutionalization of the Beard
  • The Warriors or Dreadfuls
  • Sacralization of Ganja
  • The Dreadlocks
  • An Assessment
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 5. The Phallus and the Outcast: The Symbolism of the Dreadlocks in Jamaica
  • Hair Symbolism Among the Rastafari, 1934-49
  • Hair Symbolism among the Rastafari, 1949-Present
  • Hair, Race, Gender and Magic
  • Institutionalizing New Meanings
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 6. Dub History: Soundings on Rastafari Livity and Language
  • Dub History: Notes on Oral Tradition and Rasta Ethnography
  • The Nyabinghi House: The Generational Aspects of Livity
  • Warrior's Hill and 'Egypt': I-tal's Genesis
  • Women: The Weaker Vessel
  • I-tal I-tes: Rasta Foodways
  • Trodding in Higes Knots: I-tal Garb
  • Bloodfire on Babylon: Mystics as Militants
  • I-gelic I-young: The Origins of Rasta Talk
  • Postscript
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • 7. The De-Labelling Process: From 'Lost Tribe' to 'Ethnic Group'
  • External Factors
  • Internal Factors
  • Note
  • 8. African-American Worldviews in the Caribbean
  • Surinamese Maroons and the Economy
  • The Gaan Gadu Cult
  • The Political Environment
  • Rich and Poor
  • Ideology
  • Ethos
  • Collective Fantasies
  • Self-Examination
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 9. Demons in a Garbage Chute: Surinamese Creole Women's Discourse on Possession and Therapy
  • A Surinamese Creole Subculture
  • Social Theory and 'Traditional Culture'
  • Home Rituals
  • Individualization
  • Routinization and Countervailing Forces
  • Ambiguity and Exorcism
  • Ritual Therapy
  • Demons in Conversation
  • Relations Between the Sexes
  • Discussion
  • Note
  • 10. History, Memory and Appropriation: Some Problems in the Analysis of Origins
  • The Persistence (and Resistance) of African Institutions in the West Indies
  • Radical Puritanism in the Caribbean
  • Resistance and Appropriation
  • Notes
  • 11. Afterword
  • Note
  • References
  • Glossary
  • Index

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