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Author Chevannes, Barry, author

Title Rastafari : roots and ideology / Barry Chevannes
Edition 1st ed
Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 298 pages)
Series Utopianism and communitarianism / Lyman Tower Sargent and Gregory Claeys, series editors
Utopianism and communitarianism.
Contents The spirit of resistance -- The uprooting -- The enlightenment -- Early leaders and organizations -- Enter the dreadlocks -- The Bobo Dread -- The era of the dreadlocks -- Word, sound, and power -- Repatriation and divination -- Rastafari and the wider world
Summary Traces the cultural development of the Rastafari movement from the slave trade in the sixteenth century, when it developed as a resistance reaction
Analysis Dreadlocks History
Kingston (Jamaica) Religion
Rastafari movement Jamaica Kingston History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Rastafari movement -- Jamaica -- Kingston -- History
Dreadlocks -- History
11.98 other religions.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Dreadlocks
Rastafari movement
Religion
Rastafari
Rastafari movement.
Coiffures (cheveux) -- Jamaïque Kingston.
Rastafarisme -- Jamaïque -- Histoire.
Rastafari movement -- History.
Blacks -- Religion.
Hair -- History.
SUBJECT Kingston (Jamaica) -- Religion
Subject Jamaica -- Kingston
Jamaica.
Kingston (Jamaïque) -- Religion.
Kingston (Jamaica) -- Religion.
Genre/Form History
History (form)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780815603948
0815603940