Research Catalog

Title

Rastafari : the evolution of a people and their identity / Charles Price.

Author

Price, Charles, 1963-

Publication

• New York : New York University Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Description

viii, 343 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "REPI offers a fresh angle on the Rastafari by drawing on underutilized sources such as news stories and colonial records, along with other data such as field notes, interviews and cultural products like screeds and hymns. Charles Price introduces readers to new connections, characters, and events salient to the development of the Rastafari. REPI is a scholarly resource written in a style accessible to a general audience"--
• Author Charles Price (education, Temple University) offers a history of Rastafarianism and collective Rastafari identity in Jamaica. While the book focuses on the period from the 1930s through the early 2000s, it also delves into Rastafarianism's deeper roots in the 1890s and Revival religions. Closer to the present, the book explores the commodification and cultural appropriation of Rastafari music and culture, in the context of neoliberal capitalism. The book draws on field research conducted between 1996 and 2007, along with interviews of elder Rastafari, archival data, news stories, government memos, and letters, as well as cultural products including hymns, musical recordings, tracts, and web sites. The author describes how Rastafarians resisted oppression, and how this resistance contributed to black consciousness and collective black identity.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Rastafari movement > History > 20th century
• Rastafarians
• Black theology
• Identification (Religion)
• Black people > Race identity > Jamaica
• Rastafari movement
• Black people > Race identity
• Black people
• Religion
• Jamaica > Religion
• West Indies > West Indies (Federation)
• Jamaica

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-330) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Explaining Rastafari ethnogenesis: a framework -- 2. Initial conditions: converging streams of moral black consciousness in Jamaica and elites' fear of black supremacy -- 3. Vectors, collisions, contention: collective identity formation, 1930-34 -- 4. Rastafari on trial, 1934: expounding the Rastafari doctrine -- 5. Conflict and retreat: sinking cultural roots -- 6. The menace becomes dreadful: Rastafari flex their muscle -- 7. Of beards, insurrection, and rehabilitation: social paranoia and Reverend Claudius Henry's disruptions -- 8. The report on the Rastafari: its effects and concealed motives -- 9. Growing influence brings growing pains: unification and fragmentation tussle -- 10. New challenges for the Rastafari: assault on the House of David, commodification of Rastafari culture, and gender -- Conclusion.

Call Number

Sc E 23-691

ISBN

• 9781479807154
• 147980715X
• 9781479888122
• 1479888125
• 9781479871599 (library ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781479825974 (consumer ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1310766929

Author

Price, Charles, 1963- author.

Title

Rastafari : the evolution of a people and their identity / Charles Price.

Publisher

New York : New York University Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-330) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-691