Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica - Brossura

Price, Charles

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ISBN 10: 0814767478 ISBN 13: 9780814767474

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2009

Riassunto

So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite facing adverse reactions from their fellow citizens and from their British rulers.

Charles Price draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.

Utilizing new conceptual frameworks, Price explores the identity development of Rastafari, demonstrating how shifts in the movement s identity—from social pariah to exemplar of Blackness—have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and blackness as central to their concept of self.

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Recensione:

"Price fills a void by presenting and critically analyzing the testimonies of Rastafarian men and women that narrate how they discovered, why they entered, and how they sustained membership in the culture, resistance, and theater that is Rastafari. Becoming Rasta is one of the most important additions to the discourse on the Rastafarian movement to appear in years." --William E. Cross, Jr., author of Shades of Black: Diversity in African American Identity

L'autore:

Charles Price is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0814767478
• ISBN 13: 9780814767474
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 267