{"product_id":"obeah-orisa-and-religious-identity-in-trinidad-volume-i-obeah-9781478014850","title":"Obeah Orisa and Religious Identity in Trinidad","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad\u003c\/i\u003e is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In \u003ci\u003eVolume I, Obeah\u003c\/i\u003e, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of “obeah.” A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifying\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A powerful, original contribution to this emerging literature. . . .  [T]hese two volumes will be of great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Alexander Rocklin * Nova Religio *\u003cbr\u003e\"On its own or in conjunction with its companionate volume II on Orisa, \u003ci\u003eObeah, Orisa, \u0026amp; Religious Identity in Trinidad\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome and valuable contribution to Africana religious studies, Atlantic studies, and Caribbean historiography.\" -- Aisha Khan * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A model of rigorous scholarship that offers a thoughtful and nuanced reflection on the dynamic constructions of African religion and identity in Trinidad from the colonial period to the present.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Brendan Jamal Thornton * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction to Volume I  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Formation of a Slave Colony: Race, Nation, and Identity  13\u003cbr\u003e 2. Let Them Hate So Long as They Fear: Obeah Trials and Social Cannibalism in Trinidad’s Early Slave Society  52\u003cbr\u003e 3. Obeah, Piety, and Poison in \u003ci\u003eThe Slave Son\u003c\/i\u003e: Representations of African Religions in Trinidadian Colonial Literature  104\u003cbr\u003e 4. Marked in the Genuine African Way: Liberated Africans and Obeah Doctoring in Postslavery Trinidad  141\u003cbr\u003e Afterword. \u003ci\u003eC’est Vrai\u003c\/i\u003e—It Is True  203\u003cbr\u003e Notes  209\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  241\u003cbr\u003e Index  253\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408997065047,"sku":"9781478014850","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014850.jpg?v=1730505021","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/obeah-orisa-and-religious-identity-in-trinidad-volume-i-obeah-9781478014850","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}