Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011 by Jerome S. Handler, Kenneth M. Bilby

Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760-2011

Jerome S. Handler, Kenneth M. Bilby

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More than two and a half centuries after it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former British West Indies. Yet, opinions on the meaning and essential nature of this controversial Afro-Caribbean ...

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