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245 10 a| Archival irruptions :b| constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica /c| Katharine Reid Gerbner.;

246 30 a| Constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica;

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300 a| xiii, 218 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 23 cm.;

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520 a| "In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner offers a new method for reading colonial and missionary archives by focusing on "irruptions," moments when marginalized epistemologies break through the narrative field of a Eurocentric archive. Through a microhistory of the Moravian archive from Jamaica, Gerbner shows how scholars can utilize colonial and missionary sources to tell Africana stories. Reading for irruptions offers insight into the Afro-Caribbean practice of Obeah before the practice was deemed a crime. Obeah, which developed in the British Caribbean under slavery, was criminalized as witchcraft by the British colonial government in the wake of Tacky's Revolt, the largest enslaved uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World. While historians often view Obeah through the lens of European categories such as religion or superstition, reading for irruptions reveals a new story about Obeah, Christianity, and criminalization. Archival Irruptions argues that we must reckon with the legacies of slavery to understand how some religious practices have been, and continue to be, excluded from the lexicon of religion and criminalized. Reading colonial and missionary archives for irruptions offers one method to address the history of epistemic violence and re-center the lives, experiences, and perspectives of those who have been targeted by systemic repression and criminalization" --c| Provided by publisher.;

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Archival irruptions : constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Katharine Reid Gerbner.

Author/creator	Gerbner, Katharine, 1983- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	xiii, 218 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Subjects	Obeah (Cult)--Jamaica. --History. --18th century. Religion and sociology--Jamaica. --History. Black people--Jamaica. --Religion. --History. Cults--Jamaica. --History. Witchcraft--Jamaica. --History. Religions--African influences.

Portion of title	Constructing religion and criminalizing Obeah in eighteenth-century Jamaica
Series	Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people Religious cultures of African and African diaspora people. ^A1272017
Contents	Part I. OBEAH. Africana irruptions : baptism, Odeah, and spaces of correlation ; Religio-nations in the archives : re/formations of sacred communities ; Maroons, blood oaths, and gendered irruptions : Accompong and Margery -- Part II. HEUCHELEI. Archival silence, sexual violence : reading for re/membrance ; Policing bodies, saving souls : dissimulation in the archives ; Constructing religion, defining crime : assembling, congregating, binding -- Epilogue. Land and archive : identifying and interpreting irruptions.
Abstract	"In Archival Irruptions, Katharine Gerbner offers a new method for reading colonial and missionary archives by focusing on "irruptions," moments when marginalized epistemologies break through the narrative field of a Eurocentric archive. Through a microhistory of the Moravian archive from Jamaica, Gerbner shows how scholars can utilize colonial and missionary sources to tell Africana stories. Reading for irruptions offers insight into the Afro-Caribbean practice of Obeah before the practice was deemed a crime. Obeah, which developed in the British Caribbean under slavery, was criminalized as witchcraft by the British colonial government in the wake of Tacky's Revolt, the largest enslaved uprising in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World. While historians often view Obeah through the lens of European categories such as religion or superstition, reading for irruptions reveals a new story about Obeah, Christianity, and criminalization. Archival Irruptions argues that we must reckon with the legacies of slavery to understand how some religious practices have been, and continue to be, excluded from the lexicon of religion and criminalized. Reading colonial and missionary archives for irruptions offers one method to address the history of epistemic violence and re-center the lives, experiences, and perspectives of those who have been targeted by systemic repression and criminalization" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-209) and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Gerbner, Katharine, 1983- Archival irruptions Durham : Duke University Press, 2025 9781478061250
LCCN	2024060613
ISBN	9781478032403
ISBN	1478032405 (paperback)
ISBN	9781478029038 (hardcover)
ISBN	147802903X (hardcover)
ISBN	(electronic book)
ISBN	9electronic book other)

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