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Record Nr.

UNINA9911033573003321

Autore

Gerbner Katharine <1983->

Titolo

Archival irruptions : constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica / / Katharine Reid Gerbner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Duke University Press, 2025

ISBN

9781478061250

1478061251

Disciplina

299.6/7

Soggetti

Obeah (Cult) - Jamaica - History - 18th century

Religion and sociology - Jamaica - History

Black people - Jamaica - Religion - History

Cults - Jamaica - History

Witchcraft - Jamaica - History

Religions - African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

OBEAH -- "They Call Me Obea" -- Religio-Nations in the Archives -- Maroons and Blood Oaths -- HEUCHELEI -- Archival Silence and Sexual Violence -- Policing Bodies, Saving Souls -- Constructing Religion, Defining Crime -- Assembling, Congregating, Binding

Sommario/riassunto

"In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner offers a new method for reading colonial and missionary archives by focusing on "irruptions," moments when marginalized epistemologies break through the narrative field of a Eurocentric archive. Through a microhistory of the Moravian archive from Jamaica, Gerbner shows how scholars can utilize colonial and missionary sources to tell Africana stories. Reading for irruptions offers insight into the Afro-Caribbean practice of Obeah before the practice was deemed a crime. Obeah, which developed in the British Caribbean under slavery, was criminalized as witchcraft by the British colonial government in the wake of Tacky's Revolt, the largest enslaved uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World. While historians often view Obeah through the lens of European categories such as religion or superstition, reading for irruptions



reveals a new story about Obeah, Christianity, and criminalization. Archival Irruptions argues that we must reckon with the legacies of slavery to understand how some religious practices have been, and continue to be, excluded from the lexicon of religion and criminalized. Reading colonial and missionary archives for irruptions offers one method to address the history of epistemic violence and re-center the lives, experiences, and perspectives of those who have been targeted by systemic repression and criminalization"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996675782703316

Titolo

L'Università di Padova : otto secoli di storia / a cura di Piero Del Negro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padova, : Signum, 2002

Descrizione fisica

294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

378.4532

Soggetti

Università degli studi di Padova - Storia

Collocazione

XVI.7.E. 623

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia