wyszukanych pozycji: 13
The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World
ISBN: 9781107025653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, the book results from extensive research on the development and implementation of anti-obeah legislation. It includes analysis of hundreds of prosecutions for obeah, and an account of the complex and multiple political meanings of obeah in Caribbean societies. Diana Paton moves beyond attempts to define and describe what obeah was, instead showing the political imperatives that often drove interpretations and...
An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in th...
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529,22 zł |
Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
ISBN: 9780822351337 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions such as obeah, Vodou, and Santeria have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed. The "other powers" of the book's title have helped to shape, or attempted to curtail, Caribbean...
In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions such as obeah, Vodou, and Santeria hav...
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126,12 zł |
No Bond But the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870
ISBN: 9780822334019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom.
The author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom.
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467,86 zł |
No Bond But the Law: Punishment, Race, and Gender in Jamaican State Formation, 1780-1870
ISBN: 9780822333982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination of slaveholders' legal right to use violence--which they defined as "punishment"--against those they had held as slaves. Paton argues that, while slave emancipation involved major changes in the organization and representation of punishment, there was no straightforward transition from corporal...
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Di...
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120,86 zł |
The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World
ISBN: 9781107615991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
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190,51 zł |
Obeah and Other Powers: The Politics of Caribbean Religion and Healing
ISBN: 9780822351245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions such as obeah, Vodou, and Santeria have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed. The "other powers" of the book's title have helped to shape, or attempted to curtail, Caribbean...
In Obeah and Other Powers, historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions such as obeah, Vodou, and Santeria hav...
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467,86 zł |
Intimate Politics: Fertility Control in Global Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9781032814742 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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683,39 zł |
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780822335948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was a profoundly gendered process, produced through connections between race, gender, sexuality, and class. Contributors from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Brazil explore how the processes of emancipation involved the re-creation of gender identities the production of...
This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on th...
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126,12 zł |
The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9781478011514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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126,12 zł |
The Jamaica Reader: History, Culture, Politics
ISBN: 9781478010494 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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562,49 zł |
Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9780822335818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on the United States, Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, West Africa and South Africa, and the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean, it shows that emancipation was a profoundly gendered process, produced through connections between race, gender, sexuality, and class. Contributors from the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Brazil explore how the processes of emancipation involved the re-creation of gender identities the production of...
This groundbreaking collection provides the first comparative history of gender and emancipation in the Atlantic world. Bringing together essays on th...
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499,40 zł |
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies
ISBN: 9781032089560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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210,22 zł |
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies
ISBN: 9780367202026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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709,67 zł |