Book.
1827 - Gale Group | NCCO Corvey
“They call me Obea” examines the role of obeah within the Moravian mission to Jamaica between 1754 ... much scholarship has focused on the significance of obeah in Tacky's Revolt of 1760 and later, there has been less attention paid to obeah before it became linked to rebellion and criminalized ... converts, offer new insight into the significance of obeah in pre-1760 Jamaica. When Zacharias George Caries, ... contribute to the perception that he was an obeah man? I argue that Caries’ identification as an obeah man demonstrates that obeah was not just an ...
Tópico(s): Literature: history, themes, analysis
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Atlantic Studies
Book.
1827 - Gale Group | NCCO Corvey
Each and every chapter of Obeah and Other Powers is a gem in its own right, and yet this splendid collection is also much more than simply ... Kenneth Bilby’s Enacting Power: The Criminalization of Obeah in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1760 – 2011 — makes 2012 ... beliefs and ritual practices so often glossed as obeah in Afro-Atlantic studies. Obeah and Other Powers grows out of a cutting- ... that they in fact are.The Anglophone term obeah is a linguistic transculturation from a West African ... for Igbo and Ibibio). Whatever its ultimate provenance, obeah and its terminology have been used to refer ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2013 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review
... the Devil—A Traitor's Offer, Chapter XXXIX Obeah, the Superstition of the Negroes—Quashee Takes the ... Forebodings, Chapter XXXVIII How Will Somerton Consults the Obeah Woman, and Quashee's Revenge, Chapter XXXIX The ...
1891 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
Kenneth Bilby, Jerome S. Handler,
The word obeah found across the anglophone Caribbean is probably one of the most widely known African-derived terms in the ... its meaning and significance, although many conceptions of obeah, both in the past and in more recent ... nature as witchcraft or sorcery. Indeed, the term obeah has come to be endowed with a malevolent/ ... uttered in Jamaica or other West Indian societies.Obeah is not an organized religion. It lacks a ... religion (formerly known as Shango) in Trinidad. Rather, obeah is a catch-all term that encompasses a ...
Tópico(s): Cuban History and Society
2004 - | Journal of Caribbean History
By Margaret Stone and John Whitmore, From Richard Wigg Paris, April 16, From Peter Strafford, From Edmund Stevens Moscow, April 16, By Martin Huckerby Political Staff, By a Staff Reporter, By Tim Jones Labour Staff, From Christopher Walker Belfast, From Our Correspondent Delhi, April 16, By Clive Borrell and Arthur Osman, By Our Political Staff, From Harry Golombek Dublin, From David Leigh Edinburgh, By Our Consumer Affairs Correspondent, By John Young Planning Reporter, From Philip Howard, By Our Education Correspondent, From Richard Wigg, From Arthur Osman, From Robert Fisk, From Patricia Clough, From Frank Vogl US Economics Correspondent, From Harry Debelius, From Our Own Correspondent, From Paul Martin, From Fred Emery, From Fred Emery, , From David Bonavia Peking, April 16, From Our Correspondent Rawalpindi, April 16, by Alan Palmer, David Wade, William Mann, John Higgins, Irving Wardle, Keith Horner, Sheridan Morley, Geraldine Norman, Pamela Vandyke Price, Edward Mayer, Harry Golombek, Roy Hay, John Carter, George Hutchinson, Peter Elliott, Charles Douglas-Home, Robin Mead, KEN LEECH, , JULIET CHEETHAM, , NORMAN PASSANT, , MICHAEL OGDEN, Chairman, , WILLIAM RUTLEDGE, , FREDERIK PRAUSNITZ, , T. F. F. TAYLOR, Hon Secretary, , FRED JARVIS, General Secretary, National Union of Teachers, CHARLES CLARKE, President, National Union of Students., TOM DRIVER, General Secretary, National Association of Teachers in Higher and Further Education, F. GARSIDE, Deputy General Secretary., Association of University Teachers, A. W. S. HUTCHINGS, SHEILA D. WOOD, Joint Secretaries, R. J. COOK, General Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers., ROY ROEBUCK, , G. STONE, 82 Archery Road, SE9., ABBAS KELIDAR, , JOHN COLEMAN., ROBIN A. HOWARD, , By Daniel Jenkins Minister of Regent Square United Reformed Church, London, From Our Aeronautical Correspondent, By Geraldine Norman Sale Room Correspondent, By Pamela Macgregor-Morris, By Geoffrey Green Football Correspondent, By Martin Tyler, By John Woodcock, By Christopher Warman, By Sydney Friskin, By Gareth Bowen, From Rex Bellamy Squash Rackets Correspondent, By Michael Seely, By Michael Phillips Racing Correspondent, By Jim Snow, From Frank Vogl, By Clifford Webb, By Melvyn Westlake Economics Staff, By Derek Harris Commercial Editor, Vera Di Palmc, Margaret Stone, Eric Brunet, John Drummond, Halldora Blair, EDITED BY MARGARET STONE, FE, By Tony May, By Ashley Drukier,
... seakale blanch, A gloomy view from the last 'obeah man', Polish militia attack villagers building church, 100, ...
1976 - Gale Group | TDA
Abstract Obeah, which colonial ordinances defined capaciously as “any assumption of supernatural power,” was a crime in Trinidad until 2000, and the law continues to make Obeah a punishable offense in most of the anglophone Caribbean. Scholars have noted that contemporary attitudes toward Obeah—a hard-to-define term—are largely negative, ... Trinidad regarded as the island's capital of Obeah, however, revealed polyvalent, context-contingent attitudes toward the ... alternatives to scholarly approaches that have explained away Obeah's harm as evidence of colonial false consciousness. ...
Tópico(s): Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
2015 - Penn State University Press | Journal of Africana Religions
... The King V. Rutter., Police., Trial For Practising Obeah. St. Catherine's, (Jamaica), July 9. Slave-Court.. ...
1824 - Gale Group | TDA
Jerome S. Handler, Kenneth Bilby,
... it was first outlawed in Jamaica in 1760, obeah remains illegal in most territories of the former ... many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others ... Indians in earlier generations. Despite the scholarly attention obeah has received, relatively little has been written about ... territories at different periods. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood ... this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2013 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
Geo. W. Neville, H. Bryan, Charles Bronte Morgan,
... Expert, Public Notice Coal Contract, The Home of Obeah and Myalism, Our Service Column Items of Interest ...
1907 - Gale Group | NCCO EuropeAfrica
This article asks why negative stereotypes of obeah have proved so persistent, seeking the answer in a detailed examination of changing colonial constructions of obeah. It compares the history of anti-obeah laws with that of the Shakerism Prohibition Ordinance ... while similar arguments proved harder to make for obeah. `Obeah Acts' argues that this is because the colonial production of the crime of obeah discursively isolated those aspects of Caribbean spiritual practice ... an idea of “religion.” This colonial construction of obeah played an important role in positioning the Caribbean ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2009 - Duke University Press | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
HENRY COTTON., THOS. E. FULLER., ONE OF THE PUBLIC., R. T. LOVE., T. SAMBUCETTI., ALFRED STEAD., BRUTUS., EDWARD BRABROOK., A. C. PIGOU., FREDERICK POLLOCK., A PRINTER., H. W. W., FREDERICK MILNER., A MAGISTRATE., WM. WOODWARD, EDWD. PRAILL., EDMUND C. SCHOMBERG., F. C. S. SCHILLER., T. VEZEY STRONG, , EDWARD PULSFORD., ELLENBOROUGH., UP-TO-DATE., HAROLD COX., A SOCIAL REFORMER., H. G. WELLS.,
... Lituania., Mr. Morley's Speech. Indian Press Comment., "Obeah" In The Leeward Islands.-The, The Roman Amphitheatre ...
1907 - Gale Group | TDA
... s essay discusses Revolutionary-era literary representations of obeah, a creole religion practiced by enslaved persons in ... common fascination with the occult forms of sensation obeah enabled, explaining away these experiences as misrecognitions of ... the strange sense perceptions and bodily capacities that obeah cultivated among enslaved persons. In their anxious attempts to debunk obeah, these narratives record what Jacques Rancière calls a “ ... order that claimed universality for its sense perceptions. Obeah narratives indicate that embodied religious experience constitutes a ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2012 - Duke University Press | American Literature
John Grant Crossword Editor, Chris Peachment, Michael O'sullivan, Governor, Peter Evans Home Affairs Correspondent, Jane MacQuitty, Stephanie von Buchau, Stephen Leather, David Rhys Jones, Ivo Tennant, Hilary Finch, Richard Lynn, Jeremy Kingston, Richard Fairman, Jeremy Flint, Harry Eyres, Richard Streeton, D. A. W. Taylor, John Clare, Education Correspondent, Michael McCarthy, Geoff Brown, Max G. Trethewey, Howard Foster, Francesca Greenoak, Bryan Stiles, Jim Railton, Michael Tate, Jim McCue, Jill Sherman, Social Services Correspondent, John Spicer, Pearce Wright Science Editor, David Bernstein, Peter Waymark, Ray Kennedy, Jenny MacArthur, Marcus Williams, Michael Hamlyn, Andrew Wiseman, G. L. Huxley, Frances Bissell, Barry Fantoni, Charles Bremner, Richard Evans, Political Correspondent, O. Troughton, Thomson Prentice, Harvey Elliott, Air Correspondent, Andrew McEwen and Humphrey Hawksley, Edward Fennell, Nicole Swengley, Andrew Hislop, Sydney Friskin, David Smith, Economics Correspondent, Chelwood, David Miller, Nigel Andrew, Mitchell Platts Golf Correspondent, Peter Knott SJ, Michael Watkins, Raymond Keene, Peter Gartland, Alison Eadie, Lynda Murdin, Arts Correspondent, Roy Hay, P. W., Paul Marett, Steve Acteson, Andrew McEwen, Diplomatic Correspondent, Peter Bryan, Robert Matthews, Sheila Gunn, Political Staff, Iain Liddell, Craig Seton, David Young, Energy Correspondent, Barry Pickthall, Bruce Oliver, Michael Scott, Sheila Gunn Political Staff, Keith MacKlin, Elizabeth Kennet, Peter Davalle and Jane Rackham, Pat Butcher, Athletics Correspondent, Christopher Walker, Clive White, Amanda Pardoe, Andrew Powell, Paul Eastham, Michael Seely, Lynda Murdin, Michael Clark and Geoffrey Foster, John Goodbody Sports News Correspondent, Ian Stafford, Sarah Curtis, David Sinclair, Stephen Pettitt, John Spicer Employment Affairs Correspondent, John Woodcock, Cricket Correspondent, Charles Halliday, Frances Gibb Legal Affairs Correspondent, Jonathan Meades, Pat Butcher Athletics Correspondent, Richard Morrison, Pamela Lloyd-Hart (Bureau Manager), John Campbell, Pearce Wright, Science Editor, S. C. P., Michael Kinsley, Colin Campbell, Judy Froshaug, Robert Kilroy-Silk, Ivor Davis, C. H. Rolph, Richard Williams,
... Our French Racing Correspondent, Deauville: Asmussen swoops on Obeah Almaarad to score Mandarin, By Our Newmarket Correspondent: ...
1987 - Gale Group | TDA
... Psychiatric conditions relating to the Jamaican belief in "Obeah" are specific, culturally-interpreted phenomena that psychiatric nurses ... Jamaican patients. This paper describes the phenomenon of Obeah and its influences on the worldview of life, ... throughout Jamaican cultural communities. Inability to understand the obeah-illness concept from a culturally-interpreted perspective may ... Armed with the knowledge of the concept of Obeah from a core belief perspective, how it influences ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Health and Trauma
2014 - Elsevier BV | Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR RACING CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR NEWMARKET CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR BOWLS CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR CRICKET CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR YACHTING CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT, Our Naval Correspondent, FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR AERONAUTICAL CORRESPONDENT, LIONEL JAMES, PRYNS HOPKINS, JOHN LEVO, R. A. ABIGAIL, MARGHERITA HOWARD DE WALDEN, M. COGGIN, KENNETH LIGHTFOOT, JOSEPH RAYMOND, H. BERNARD GRIEVE, E. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, Mr. H. H. FERNBACK, FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT, By CALLISTHENES, FROM OUR MOTORING CORRESPONDENT, By Sir Leonard Woolley, FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS, From Our Diplomatic Correspondent, FROM OUR NAVAL CORRESPONDENT, Our Parliamentary Correspondent, HUGH WALPOLE, C. C. LYNAM, R. A. MITCHELL, J. W. CROWFOOT, JOHN B. HALY, From Our New York Correspondent, "An Admirer", "B. C.", Dr. R. W. Lee, FROM A CORRESPONDENT, FROM OUR UGANDA CORRESPONDENT,
... Witchcraft In The West Indies Christian Faith Versus Obeah, Points from Letters, Holiday Books Two Rival Schools ...
1936 - Gale Group | TDA
Les crimes de Obeah en Jamaïque après la Révolte de Tacky en 1760 ont donné lieu à de nombreuses accusations et poursuites judiciaires ... comment les définitions légales de l’empoisonnement et Obeah ont changé au fil du temps et l’ ... que les lois sur l’empoisonnement et l’Obeah ainsi que les accusations et les persécutions suggèrent ... esclaves, elles ont laissé un goût amer d’Obeah vu comme symbole de sorcellerie et de fraude, ...
Tópico(s): Cuban History and Society
2013 - University of Puerto Rico | Caribbean studies
Attributed to William Earle. Based on the life of Jack Mansong, also called "Three-fingered Jack". Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin backfiles 2011
... Jamaican Gothic:Cynric R. Williams's Hamel, the Obeah Man Janina Nordius I. By the late 1820s, ... such novel is the anonymously published Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827), set in early 1820s colonial Jamaica, ... in pre-emancipation Jamaica would have been the "obeah men," Brathwaite suggests, and it is this circumstance ... 6 Through "its exploration of the mysteries of Obeah," Paravisini-Gebert observes, Hamel "typifies how some of ...
Tópico(s): Short Stories in Global Literature
2006 - Johns Hopkins University Press | ELH
Kelly Wisecup, Toni Wall Jaudon,
This essay introduces Obeah: knowledge, power, and writing in the early Atlantic World, a special issue responding to recent scholarly interest in obeah and related creole and African-derived medical and ... Africans in the pre-emancipation Caribbean. It describes obeah and the epistemological conundrum it posed for colonists ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Atlantic Studies
Nicole N. Aljoe, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Benjamin J. Doyle, Elizabeth Hopwood,
... ecdaproject.org – has created a collaborative archival project, “Obeah and the Caribbean.” This project consists, in part, of a digital exhibit of original obeah texts including a number of the primary sources ... that inform the ECDA and our project on obeah.
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Atlantic Studies
... Type Healer/Diviner'; cf. Handler, 'Slave Medicine and Obeah'; Bilby and Handler, 'Obeah'. An early eighteenth-century 'sub-adult' interment in ... various spiritual contexts such as grave site rituals, Obeah practices, and, possibly, shrines (e.g., Handler and ... House-Yard Burials', 46–49; Bilby and Handler, 'Obeah'; Fesler, 'From Houses to Homes', 170–172; Walsh, ...
Tópico(s): Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
2009 - Frank Cass & Co. | Slavery and Abolition
... understanding an encounter between the force of African obeah and English forces. It is argued that the ... his force – was able to isolate and weaken obeah, a force that was ordinarily held in awe ... that the court would view the work involving obeah as irrational, and in the end deem the ...
Tópico(s): Cuban History and Society
2007 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Southern African Studies
Abstract The practice of obeah, a term used to refer to a variety of African derived spiritual practices, remains proscribed in at least fourteen countries ... and the significance of the continued prohibition of obeah. Although obeah laws were initially modeled on British statutes banning ... the Atlantic world in the twenty-first century. Obeah laws proscribe the mere performance of certain spiritual ... practitioners. This article links the continued proscription of obeah to nineteenth century assertions that African peoples were ...
Tópico(s): Anthropological Studies and Insights
2017 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Law and Religion
References to obeah pregnancy are widespread in southern Belize, where the belief in supernatural forces combines with Catholic teaching to create ... death are located in a discourse of shame. Obeah pregnancy is said to result when spiritual forces ... confirmation; thus it is often unclear if an obeah pregnancy is a viable pregnancy or some other ... that she does not die from her purported obeah pregnancy; rather, she lives to bear the consequences ...
Tópico(s): Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
2011 - Taylor & Francis | Culture Health & Sexuality
... article reconsiders the archive of colonial literatures about obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religious and medical practice that ... 1760. Scholars have argued that the literatures of obeah constructed meanings for obeah as witchcraft and as a deceitful practice; as ... to offer no insight into the practice of obeah as Africans employed it. This article examines the process whereby colonists attempted to incorporate obeah into their systems of knowledge only to find that obeah evaded their systems in ways that exposed the ...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Atlantic Studies
... in Antigua were arrested for ‘the practicing of Obeah’. The Attorney General praised the country’s ‘Christian community’ for its help identifying the alleged obeah practit...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2016 - Frank Cass & Co. | Slavery and Abolition
... of beliefs and practices encompassed by the term Obeah, and how the meaning of this term changed ... author discusses the early use of the term Obeah in Barbados and the Anglophone Caribbean.
Tópico(s): Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
2000 - Brill | New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids
... well as the moral impregnation of the term obeah. This ethnographic study of ordinary ethics of obeah explores the significant gap between the designation and ... the author proposes to relocate the definition of obeah from its specific practices to its moral burden. This approach helps reevaluate the use of obeah in social science writings related to the St. ...
Tópico(s): Religion and Society in Latin America
2017 - Duke University Press | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism