Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad, Volume I, Obeah

Tracey E. Hucks is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Africana Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School and Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is the author of Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism.

• Preface  ixAcknowledgments  xvIntroduction to Volume I  11. The Formation of a Slave Colony: Race, Nation, and Identity  132. Let Them Hate So Long as They Fear: Obeah Trials and Social Cannibalism in Trinidad’s Early Slave Society  523. Obeah, Piety, and Poison in The Slave Son: Representations of African Religions in Trinidadian Colonial Literature  1044. Marked in the Genuine African Way: Liberated Africans and Obeah Doctoring in Postslavery Trinidad  141Afterword. C’est Vrai-It Is True  203Notes  209Bibliography  241Index  253

"A powerful, original contribution to this emerging literature. . . .  [T]hese two volumes will be of great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions."- Alexander Rocklin (Nova Religio) "On its own or in conjunction with its companionate volume II on Orisa, Obeah, Orisa, & Religious Identity in Trinidad is a welcome and valuable contribution to Africana religious studies, Atlantic studies, and Caribbean historiography." - Aisha Khan (Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology) “A model of rigorous scholarship that offers a thoughtful and nuanced reflection on the dynamic constructions of African religion and identity in Trinidad from the colonial period to the present.”- Brendan Jamal Thornton (Journal of the American Academy of Religion)