The first comprehensive work on the origins of the Jamaica-based Rastafaris, including interviews with some of the earliest members of the movement. Rastafari is a valuable work with a rich historical and ethnographic approach that seeks to correct several misconceptions in existing literature―the true origin of dreadlocks for instance. It will interest religion scholars, historians, scholars of Black studies, and a general audience interested in the movement and how Rastafarians settled in other countries.

Rastafari: Roots and Ideology (Utopianism and Communitarianism)

History

Chevannes, Barry

World

Syracuse University Press

Traces the cultural development of the Rastafari movement from the slave trade in the sixteenth century, when it developed as a resistance reaction

Religion & Spirituality

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Syracuse Univ Pr

Rastafari: Roots and Ideology

Americas

Univ of West Indies Pr

This is a study of the processes by which male children are socialized in the Caribbean, against the backdrop of growing concern among educators, social workers and the general public that Caribbean males are becoming increasingly marginalized. It is based on qualitative research.

Learning to Be a Man: Culture, Socialization, and Gender Identity in Five Caribbean Communities

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University Press of the West Indies

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