Author: United Nations. Secretariat
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Statutes and Subsidiary Legislation
Author: United Nations. Secretariat
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Enacting Power
Author: Jerome S. Handler
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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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 spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection from harm and solving a wide range of everyday problems - positive views that were also commonly held by enslaved West Indians in earlier generations. Despite the scholarly attention obeah has received, relatively little has been written about the many laws enacted against it in different territories at different periods. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, the core of this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present. Aside from chronologically tracing in each territory the development of these laws and their major provisions, the book also examines how anti-obeah legislation has helped to create and perpetuate cultural distortions that resound into the present. Anti-obeah legislation, particularly after the end of slavery in the nineteenth century, played a central role in creating public misunderstandings of the meaning and role of obeah among the West Indian masses, and led to the stigmatization and devaluation among future generations of African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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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 spiritual phenomenon vary widely. While many contemporary West Indians hold negative views of obeah, viewing it as evil witchcraft or sorcery, others point to its widespread use in healing, protection from harm and solving a wide range of everyday problems - positive views that were also commonly held by enslaved West Indians in earlier generations. Despite the scholarly attention obeah has received, relatively little has been written about the many laws enacted against it in different territories at different periods. Offering a perspective on obeah that challenges conventional conceptions of this widely misunderstood aspect of West Indian society and culture, the core of this book is a detailed examination of anti-obeah laws, and their socio-political implications, in seventeen jurisdictions of the English-speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the present. Aside from chronologically tracing in each territory the development of these laws and their major provisions, the book also examines how anti-obeah legislation has helped to create and perpetuate cultural distortions that resound into the present. Anti-obeah legislation, particularly after the end of slavery in the nineteenth century, played a central role in creating public misunderstandings of the meaning and role of obeah among the West Indian masses, and led to the stigmatization and devaluation among future generations of African-derived spiritual beliefs and practices.
Monthly List of Official Colonial Publications
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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The Laws of the Uganda Protectorate in Force on the 1st Day of January, 1951
Author: Uganda
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Karibische Inseln
Author: Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (1919-1970). Bibliothek
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The National Union Catalog
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Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : Bibliography, International
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Subject Catalogue of the Royal Commonwealth Society, London: The Americas
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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The Handbook of Jamaica for ...
Author: Frank Cundall
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Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
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Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
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