The Deepest Dye : Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

Name: The Deepest Dye
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674987821
Price: 6450 KES
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ISBN: 9780674987821

by Aisha Khan

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0674987829

ISBN-13 9780674987821

Publisher Harvard University Press

Imprint Harvard University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 1st, 2021

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 498 grams

Dimensions 16.30 x 24.30 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas Comparative religion Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography

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Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the “African” supernatural practice of obeah and the “Indian” mourning festival of Hosay. The British criminalized both, establishing hierarchies through racial and religious identities still relevant to postcolonial power dynamics, as well as justice movements.

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