- Description
- 1 online resource (pages 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Rastafari (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Rastafari (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Explaining Rastafari ethnogenesis : a framework -- Initial conditions : converging streams of moral Black consciousness and fear of Black supremacy -- Vectors, collisions, contention : collective identity formation : 1932- -- Rastafari on trial, 1934 : expounding the Rastafari doctrine -- Conflict and retreat : sinking cultural roots -- The menace becomes dreadful : Rastafari flex their muscle -- Of beards, insurrection, and rehabilitation : social paranoia and reverend Claudius Henry's disruptions -- The report on the Rastafari : its effects and concealed motives -- Growing influence brings growing pains : with unification fragmentation tussles -- Assault on the House of David, commodification of Rastafari culture, and gender : new challenges for the Rastafari.
- LCCN
- 2022001986
- OCLC
- ssj0002741702
- Author
Price, Charles, 1963-
- Title
Rastafari [electronic resource] : the evolution of a people and their identity / Charles Price.
- Imprint
New York : New York University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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