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Rastafari : roots and ideology

Title: Rastafari : roots and ideology / Barry Chevannes.
Author: Chevannes, Barry.
Publication: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1994.

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Description

xiv, 298 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Utopianism and communitarianism

Uniform Title

Utopianism and communitarianism.

Subjects

Rastafari movement > Jamaica > Kingston > History
Kingston (Jamaica) > Religion
Dreadlocks > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-289) and index.

Contents

1. The Spirit of Resistance -- 2. The Uprooting -- 3. The Enlightenment -- 4. Early Leaders and Organizations -- 5. Enter the Dreadlocks -- 6. The Bobo Dread -- 7. The Era of the Dreadlocks -- 8. Word, Sound, and Power -- 9. Repatriation and Divination -- 10. Rastafari and the Wider World.

ISBN

081562638X (cloth : alk. paper)
0815602960 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

94018608

OCLC

30473510
ocm30473510

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Columbia University Libraries