Keith E McNeal

Gebundenes Buch

Trance and Modernity in the Southern Caribbean

African and Hindu Popular Religions in Trinidad and Tobago

Beschreibung

This comparative study of African and Hindu popular religions in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago charts the development of religion in the Caribbean by analyzing the ways ecstatic forms of worship, enacted through trance performance and spirit mediumship, have adapted to capitalism and reconfigured themselves within the context of modernity.

Autor

Keith E. McNeal is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California at San Diego.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780813037363
• ISBN-10: 0813037360
• Artikelnr.: 33771176