Rastafari & Other African-Caribbean Worldviews
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"Recommended collection includes selections by editor on native religions of Jamaica, a new approach to Rastafari, and the origin and symbolism of dreadlocks. Also includes articles by: Jean Besson on religion as resistance in Jamaica; by John Homiak on dub history (use of oral testimony by Rastafarians in their ritual discourse); Ellis Cashmore on the Rastafarian de-labeling process; H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen on African-American worldviews in the Caribbean; Wilhelmina van Wetering on Surinamese creole women's discourse on possession and therapy; and Roland Littlewood on problems in the analysis of origins"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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